Stepping into the shoes of a literary figure as well known as Virginia Woolf would be a nerve-wracking challenge for anyone, ...

Tim Mead was the expressive soloist, whose rich, clear voice easily rose above string tremolos, bass drum, and tam-tam in ...

City of London Sinfonia and the London Review of Books will present dazzling works of music and literature created in the ...

She began scouring Austen’s letters and novels and learned that there were many other women who influenced Austen besides ...

The sharp backlash to the early weeks of the second Donald Trump administration has been felt in Los Angeles, but perhaps no group has been more vocal than local students. On Thursday, over 50 Samohi ...

Morrison’s “Beloved” and Douglass’s “My Bondage and My Freedom” have been added back to the HUM syllabus this spring, as ...

I n 1996, the New York-based civil rights organization known as UPROSE was struggling. Founded by Puerto Rican activists, the ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

The former couple faces a lawsuit from a woman who worked for the couple in New Zealand. The items that vanished from the National Library of Scotland in the 1960s included poems and songs. The ...

The arrival of Mary Stuart in England in 1568 had prompted a Catholic revival in the north. The hope was that Mary would succeed Elizabeth. In the meantime the question for Catholics was to what ...

Or, as captive: I forked out several thousand dollars in December for a five-night cruise onboard the Queen Elizabeth from Sydney to Hobart to experience The Australian Literature Festival At Sea. Ten ...

This being so, Arbella Stuart usually features as little more than a footnote in studies of the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. With hindsight it is easy to assume that she was always destined to be ...