The playwright is known for contemporary adaptations, this time updating Homer's epic tale of the warrior Odysseus. Theater ...

Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped Austen.

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He lays out the case for why such a system still represents “the best way to organize and direct the deep tensions that ...

In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in ...

Nicole Graev Lipson’s sharp, sparkling collection “Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays” triumphs at ...