We sat down with expert David Medina to discuss William Shakespeare's closeting in LGBTQ Nation's OutThink interview series.

By July 1858, the English explorer John Hanning Speke had been in Africa for 18 months. His eyes and body were weakened by fever, and he still hadn't ...

Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and laboured tirelessly to ensure that her celebrity would outlive her. @sophieolive examines the real ...

Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and laboured tirelessly to ensure that her celebrity would outlive her. @sophieolive examines the real ...

William Shakespeare, the most popular interpreter of the Caesarean myth in literature, hardly cared about the plebeians and sided with the wealthy patricians. Kamaleshwar Mukherjee takes a cue from ...

This episode, which appears in Nicholas Shakespeare’s outstanding 2023 biography of the creator of ... manager of the Sunday Times and later life as a novelist. This diverting collection ...

Naturally, I named him Shakespeare–ji ... did this friend… a city where poetry isn’t a hobby; it’s a way of life. There, people don’t just express feelings. They add drama to them.

This excerpt is adapted from 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read), by Christopher J. Scalia. More ...

Roger Kimball on the life & work of the prolific author.

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The greatest love story of all time, William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, presented as a fast-paced thriller, comes to the ASB Waterfront Theatre from 15 July – 9 August. Reimagined in the 1960s, a ...

William Creighton has assured supporters he remains “fully committed” to this season’s Probite British Rally Championship, which he provisionally leads after the first two rounds. Creighton ...