Essays by a writer of literary lives meditate on the obsessions and obstacles endemic to her trade.

Biography.com notes that “Tudor officials responsible for ascertaining authorship of plays attributed several works to Shakespeare.” And the claim of a lack of mourning is undercut by no less than ...

I have picked five books from different sports as must-reads. At home, Sunil Gavaskar’s Sunny Days remains an all-time best.

Nitya Chakraborty Sanghamitra Chakraborty’s just released book ‘Soumitra Chatterjee and His World’ is perhaps the first ...

Leonard Peikoff dedicated his life to promoting the author’s vision of freedom and self-determination. But at what cost?

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Gender researchers plan to steer thousands of dollars awarded by the Biden administration towards travel to transgender medical conferences, pronoun ...

X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to ...

Muti began a concert in Carnegie Hall with Contemplazione, whose subtitle is preludio per orchestra. Universal Edition (the ...

The Cold War was a war of armaments and ideologies—but it was also a war of words, fought in classrooms, libraries, and on ...

The book The Story of Avini's Thought delves into the perspectives of the late Morteza Avini, a famous Iranian for ...