Last month, there was a surprise in the sometimes predictable round of literary prizes. The Baillie Gifford Prize for ...

A translation of the dohas of Rahim, general, poet, polyglot and bureaucrat in Emperor Akbar’s administration, that is erudite, enjoyable and edifying ...

Genuine praise for even a great writer or artist must maintain a fine balance, and the author displays it in good measure.

Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare in director Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, a Focus Features release. Credit: Agata Grzybowska / © 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC Jessie Buckley ...

This week’s senior profile is on Angela Wilder. She shows incredible and admirable dedication to learning French as well as ...

Happy holidays, and happy reading! All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell (Cavankerry) If there has ...

We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”  metaphorically, as an emphatic ...

The New York Times bestselling author returns to the village of Mitford in her 15th novel featuring Father Tim Kavanagh.

Pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown will release TWELVE BLOCKS, the first album devoted entirely to his original ...

On Monday, Nov. 17, novelist Hamid Ismailov and translator Shelley Fairweather-Vega visited Swarthmore to discuss their recent collaborative work, “We Computers.” The novel, authored by Ismailov and ...

“I’ve had a life well-lived, because music is such a unifying thing,” she says. “Music saves our lives every day. It’s my ...