Master and Commander takes us back to the Napoleonic Wars, where Russell Crowe plays Captain Jack Aubrey, commanding the ...

Fond as I am of albatrosses — a trait shared with my literary hero Stephen Maturin — my favorite bygone local species is Olympidytes thieli. It was discovered by Bruce Thiel while looking for ...

One line often said by Pennywise in Stephen King's It only makes me wish he would write a prequel to this novel, but it seems ...

From Randall Flagg to Dick Hallorann to Pennywise the Dancing Clown, here are the Stephen King characters who appear in several of the author's works. Maturin, or the Turtle, plays a significant ...

Often spun from English folklore or French literature, swashbuckler movies usually entail valiant rogues who don't hide from ...

Patrick O’Brian (1914–2000) is famed for his twenty ‘tales’ – as he called them – about the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, one of the great pairs of ...

Like the flickering special effects in the 1960 version of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine," past ages unspool around us — if ...

Stephen A. Smith confirmed he was confronted by LeBron James after Thursday's Los Angeles Lakers game, responding to the NBA superstar after a video that showed James appearing irritated during a ...

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has accepted a role with his alma mater Davidson College as an assistant general manager for the basketball programs, university officials told ESPN.