Judson W. Van DeVenter was a Christian minister, teacher, and hymn writer. Born in 1855 in Michigan, he had a deep love for art and music. This life-changing decision led him to write several gospel ...

Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel, “Now I Surrender,” weaves past and present in a baroque anti-Western set in contested borderlands. Credit...Carlo Giambarresi Supported by By Dwight Garner When you ...

Before the captivity narrative about a Mexican woman abducted by the Apache in the mid-1800s; before the storyline about Geronimo’s surrender; before the torrent of details about the life and peoples ...

Exactly what does it mean to surrender? Give up? Concede? Capitulate? Acquiesce? Fail? The word seems to have a universally accepted implication of doom, right? It’s about defeat. Oxford’s ...