Huge amounts of historical research were obviously poured into the book. While this makes “Night Watch” a history buff’s dream, Phillips’s preoccupation with the historical also works to ...

The opening sequence of Jayne Anne Phillips’ Night Watch, the 2024 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, raises more questions than it answers. In 1874, a character known only as Papa takes ...

Rembrandt's 1642 masterpiece "The Night Watch" has been closely examined by researchers, who ... More discovered how Rembrandt used pigments to create a gold effect. One of the central characters ...