The politics of The Rot stem from a darker time. If still angry, this book also feels sadder. Despair cannot pass without ...

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

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Vladimir Nabokov’s leap away from Russian, his native language, was not an instantaneous, effortless transformation.

Was 16th-Century aristocrat Jane Boleyn a treacherous, "sex-mad" spy – or was she a convenient scapegoat? A new historical ...

Amidst an abundance of thank-yous, drawings and fist bumps from first graders at Jackson Elementary School, Army veteran ...

Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative ...

September 18, 2025 • A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're ...

At an event to mark 150 years of Vande Mataram last week, Modi claimed that the song had been “broken and cut into pieces” ...