Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad ...

With a new Sense & Sensibility film, Pride & Prejudice TV show, and Mary Bennett inspired series all soon to hit the small screen, it seems the world is more obsessed with Jane Austen than ever. While ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers what’s ‘realistic’ in what we read v what we watch ...

Weisz never dials down her characters’ hunger or mess, instead amplifying it to truth, turning excess into essence. These are literary fever-dreams made flesh: too ambitious, too broken, too alive to ...

Between the secret abortions and the "smutty" adult novels her friends begged her to hide, the new biography "Judy Blume: A Life" feels as illicit as snooping through your mother’s nightstand.

As readers mark the centennial of the Sheed & Ward publishing house, we celebrate what “the Sheedwardians”—as that unlikely ...

Horatio Nelson is famous for besting Napoleon at sea. But what did he mean by “Kiss me, Hardy”—his supposed last words?

The Academy Awards came and went, but you can always catch up on this year's winners and nominees. I'll show you how and ...

Jane Lapotaire, the British stage actor whose Broadway performance as Edit Piaf won her a Tony Award, died Thursday, March 5, ...

Directed by: Ugo Bienvenu Nominations: (1) Best Animated Feature ...

Jane Ferguson, a seasoned war and conflict reporter for PBS NewsHour and a visiting professor at Princeton University, was teaching a course titled “War Reporting: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” last ...