At times it can be frustrating to have such a wise mind in a younger body. People usually have a harder time accepting your insights when you are an old soul, even if they should seriously follow what ...

Fred C. Robinson, the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English, died at home in New Haven on May 5. He was 85 years old. Fred C. Robinson Robinson was renowned as a philologist gifted at ...

You’ve probably seen phrases like “Ye Olde Tavern” or “Ye Olde Shoppe” scrawled across English-language signs, trying to evoke a sense of the medieval. But the practice of naming shops this way didn’t ...

Originally published in 1989, the novel by László Krasznahorkai is set in a small Hungarian town, with the plot revolving around a mysterious circus that appeared out of the blue ensuing chaos and ...