James Fenimore Cooper

Movies are increasingly creeping online, as video sites like YouTube and Hulu are adding feature films to their extensive libraries. At the Google-owned YouTube, there is the YouTube Screening Room, which every two weeks, adds four new films—mostly...

Movies are increasingly creeping online, as video sites such as YouTube and Hulu add feature films to their extensive libraries. Hulu recently added 1962's Lawrence of Arabia, prompting the question: Should anyone watch a nearly four-hour epic of...

Movies are increasingly creeping online, as video sites like YouTube and Hulu are adding feature films to their extensive libraries. At the Google-owned YouTube, there is the YouTube Screening Room, which every two weeks, adds four new films —...

Thomas Chambers (1806-1869) has been called America's first modernist, a curious label for a Brit who made paintings of ships as interior decoration. Yet, as a Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibit reveals, he was definitely ahead of the waves, the sort...

As Sarah Palin "aw-shucks-ed" her way through Thursday's debate, she repeatedly played the one card that has become her stock in trade: She is a real American. Her rural roots, her lack of sophistication and worldliness, her bare bones education, her...

By Nick Owchar Like many an excellent chronicler of village life, Lauren Groff gives us early in "The Monsters of Templeton" (Voice/Hyperion: 364 pp., $24.95) an ensemble view of the citizens of Templeton, a place very closely modeled on Cooperstown, N....

To really appreciate Sag Harbor's literary tradition, you have to do what the writers who have called this East End village home have been doing for almost two centuries: Use your imagination. "Imagine what this looked like a century-and-a-half ago,"...

Here are a few of the members of Sag Harbor's "Literary Roundtable," figuratively speaking. Houses and other places associated with most of these writers are included in Anthony Garro's historical walking tour, held in conjunction with Sag Harbor's...

Bolton Landing, N.Y. The Adirondacks, land of long lakes and last Mohicans, do their big business in the summer, when upstate New York gets its meager annual allotment of warm weather. The forest-fringed waterways and low mountains leap to life as...

With the 2007 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon, Natty Bumppo has traded his buckskins for some designer jeans. Yes, Natty Bumppo, hero of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales," the great woody prose of which has prompted many an undergraduate to...

It is the pleasant nature of this quaint little upstate village that makes it so easy to overlook the disconnect between truth and legend that allowed it to become the hometown of baseball history. If baseball wasn't invented here, it should have been....

What might "Ismail Ax" mean? One theory spreading across the Web speculates that it comes from a story in the Quran, the holy book of Islam, about Ibrahim and his son, Ismail. In Islam, Ibrahim is the father of the prophets and, upset that people in his...