Françoise Sagan’s first novel “Bonjour Tristesse” was published in 1954. With a new film adaptation, the book and its author ...

By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge.

The entrance to China's First Village of Writers in Zhangmutou Town, Guangdong Province. Photo: Courtesy of Cai Zengyu . In ...

The decision by President Donald Trump to fire Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress, a scant year before her 10-year term ...

Each of these writers, in their own way, modelled what it is to be an ‘inconvenient’ woman – something we need now, perhaps ...

Journey through the Berkshires, a rural idyll in western Massachusetts where small-town bookstores, such as The Bookstore and ...

Among the mysterious agents of the collapse of the Mycenaeans / Achaeans were the “Sea Peoples.” They were a confederation of ...

If I asked you to picture a racist, I know exactly what you'd envision. A white hood, or someone screaming slurs, or a person ...

A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to ancient poems. The scientists pored over more than 700 ...

Five years later, she has a new novel, “Speak to Me of Home,” which draws directly from her family’s history in Puerto Rico ...

We all know what racism looks like. It’s loud, it’s angry, it’s terrifying. But when it’s hidden in imagery and connotations, ...

Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s ...