If James Bond, now in American hands, re-emerges refreshed as an agent of the CIA, then it will be a homecoming of sorts, given that his creator played a role in drawing up the blueprint for ...

A new production of Othello foregrounds what the play’s earliest audiences recognized: the psychological costs of war.

The last book and the second Jenny Hval book on this list, Girls Against God grapples with a lot of the same themes as Paradise Rot — isolation and belonging, female impulses, bodies, burgeoning ...

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From award-winning authors to pop culture's biggest stars, this spring's line-up of LGBTQ+ books may require an extra shelf.

At Herons Moor Academy, World Book Day was just one highlight in a dedicated Reading Week packed with exciting activities.

Why the First Folio is the greatest single volume of work in English literature Bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult on why she thinks Shakespeare was a woman Can this book really teach people how ...

Some of the most famous books we love today were once rejected by publishers. They were considered too different, ...

Visitors attend the London Book Fair on March 13, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of China National Publications Import and Export ...

Richmond Shakespeare’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) at the Gottwald Theatre is a fast-paced, ...

Beware the Ides of March? Charles A. Dana Professor of English Emerita Cynthia Lewis explores how prophets in Shakespeare's ...

Ironically, it’s World Happiness Day and the widow of the great comedian Sir Ken Dodd is chuckling as she sits in the library ...