Ruth First, born 100 years ago, was a South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar who worked against the racist ...

A landmark biography shows the storied conservative leader walking intellectual, journalistic, and financial tightropes.

The WritersBLOCK / ReadersBLOCK project in Hobart is a reminder of the importance of stories, and the benefits of making time ...

Before the Book Society most Britons believed, as H.G. Wells, a writer, put it, “that it is extravagant and wrong to own ...

As children, my sister Bella and I had our own anthem. It was a bastardized version of a song from Jesus Christ Superstar, ...

Mafalda,” the comic strip in which she appeared, was published in Argentina from 1964 to 1973, and remained a cultural ...

On or off the runway, fashion can conjure up psychoanalytical questions that are spoken or subliminal. And this fall, The ...

Two new books, “The Einstein of Sex” and “The Intermediaries,” argue for the largely forgotten importance of Magnus ...

Ashani Lewis has won both the £10,000 Betty Trask Prize and the £4,000 Somerset Maugham Award for her novel Winter Animals ...

Nafisi calls literature a “pocket of freedom” in a repressive society. Canadian literature is that refuge for me—a “pocket of freedom” within freedom itself.

The same holds for her latest 'The Lost Soul of the Joukhoorei', a book that "sat with me for 10 years", according to the writer, and was launched in Delhi on Monday. Om Books International has ...

In addition to co-editing and directing the book with Anastasia Paillard, Dr. Shahryari’s own article in the volume, Réemplois, réutilisations et références au sein de l’administration perse ...