In his 1988 Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, Victor Nell said much the same thing. Reading was for ...

You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled uneasily with the realities of power.

Pulling from new archival material, original research and interviews, the book — the first major biography of Baldwin in ...

A recent meeting of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club was held at the home of Karin Seager Cockram in November. President Ms. Sharon Klug called the meeting to order, welcoming the 15 members who were ...

In Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated film, Fernanda Torres plays a woman whose family is torn apart by Brazil’s military ...

The smattering of novels are largely by Palestinian American writers, among them Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Hala ...

THEY say it's not what you know, but who you know - and when it comes to fame, family connections are often what really count ...

"Blood and the Badge" by Michael Cannell is the tale of two NYPD officers who were paid to provide information and even kill for the Mob.

Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research lab, ...

White Plains collector Seth Kaller has an original copy of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, which doesn't mention the dream. King improvised it.

The Loveland Public Library in collaboration with the Loveland Poet Laureate Program is presenting a workshop series, ...