Literature
Shakespeare First Folio Acquired by the University of British Columbia
The volume is going on display at Vancouver Art Gallery as part of a new exhibition
Winnie-the-Pooh, an Ernest Hemingway Classic and a Massive Library of Sound Recordings Will Enter the Public Domain on January 1
Works newly available to copy, republish and remix in 2022 also include poems by Langston Hughes and Dorothy Parker
The Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021
With many of our wings still clipped by Covid-19 this year, we needed to travel vicariously through these adventurous reads
A Literary Scholar Takes Us Around the World in Eighty Books
Harvard professor David Damrosch's new release has readers traveling to London, Paris, Nigeria, Tokyo and beyond without ever leaving home
The Victorian Woman Writer Who Refused to Let Doctors Define Her
Harriet Martineau took control of her medical care, defying the male-dominated establishment’s attempts to dismiss her as hysterical and fragile
The Unheralded Women Scribes Who Brought Medieval Manuscripts to Life
A new book by scholar Mary Wellesley spotlights the anonymous artisans behind Europe's richly illuminated volumes
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chronicler of Migrant Experience, Wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Zanzibar-born author of ten novels tells richly detailed stories about people living "in the gulf between cultures and continents"
You Could Own the Landmark That Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's 'Poohsticks Bridge'
Built in 1907, the structure—expected to sell for between $54,000 and $81,000—is newly rebuilt and restored
Follow Ian Fleming's Footsteps Through Jamaica
Discover the author’s favorite places—as the 25th James Bond movie hits theaters
Who Was the Real James Bond?
Author Ian Fleming named his 007 after an influential ornithologist
First Edition of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' Sells for Record-Breaking $1.17 Million
A rare copy of the iconic Gothic novel is now the most expensive printed work by a woman sold at auction
'The Green Knight' Adopts a Medieval Approach to 'Modern' Problems
A new film starring Dev Patel as Gawain feels more like a psychological thriller than a period drama
You Can Now Explore an Unseen Trove of Franz Kafka's Personal Papers Online
The National Library of Israel has digitized a rare collection of the "Metamorphosis" author's letters, drawings and manuscripts
Eric Carle, Author and Illustrator of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' Dies at 91
The beloved story of a ravenous insect has sold 40 million copies and been translated into 60 languages
Unseen Trove of Literary Treasures, From Emily Brontë's Handwritten Poems to Robert Burns' Musings, Up for Sale
Sotheby's is set to auction a private collection of 500 manuscripts, first editions, letters and papers linked to famed British authors
Can Climate Fiction Writers Reach People in Ways That Scientists Can't?
A new subgenre of science fiction leans on the expertise of biologists and ecologists to imagine a scientifically plausible future Earth
Blackface Is Older Than You Might Think
From medieval European theater troupes to American minstrelsy, the harmful tradition has a surprisingly long history
From Books Bound in Human Skin to Occult Texts, These Are Literature's Most Macabre, Surprising and Curious Creations
A new tome takes readers into collector Edward Brooke-Hitching's "madman's library"
Did Shakespeare Base His Masterpieces on Works by an Obscure Elizabethan Playwright?
The new book "North by Shakespeare" examines the link between the Bard of Avon and Sir Thomas North
Mars' Perseverance Landing Site Named After Science Fiction Author Octavia E. Butler
The Jezero crater location has been named 'Octavia E. Butler Landing' in honor of the late literary giant
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