Paris Angels and Black Grape guitarist Paul Wagstaff has died, it has been announced. His friends and fans paid tribute to ...
An insomniac’s musings on World Sleep Day, Shakespeare’s obsession with sleep, Keats’ poetic drowsiness, Murakami’s soporific ...
Star Wars' new Andor prequel novel confirms some key truths about Padmé Amidala and her death, and how crucial it was to the ...
A new production of Othello foregrounds what the play’s earliest audiences recognized: the psychological costs of war.
Bard bashing has become something of a national sport, says Robert McCrum, and the latest attempt to rewrite the legacy of ...
The girl-power premise behind Lauren Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle has good stuff, but is unevenly executed.
On March 10, 2025, the Wisconsin Book Festival hosted the University of Wisconsin Creative Writing Department’s six masters ...
At a time when, in his words, “nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and ...
A rare original handwritten copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 has re-emerged in a 17th-century manuscript. The text, which is very different from the usual version, sheds more light on the political ...
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...
A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ... Shakespeare, said the "exciting discovery" would help researchers understand the Bard's popularity in the decades following his death.