Writers
Before Romeo and Juliet, Paolo and Francesca Were Literature's Star-Crossed Lovers
Centuries after Italian poet Dante published "The Divine Comedy," Romantic artists and writers reimagined the tragedy as a tale of female agency
Why 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' Frightened So Many Parents in the 1990s
Launched 40 years ago, Alvin Schwartz's spooky series pitted school administrators against PTO members pleading to ban the books
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"
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
The Secret Codes of Lady Wroth, the First Female English Novelist
The Renaissance noblewoman is little known today, but in her time she was a notorious celebrity
Explore Sylvia Plath's Love Letters, Recipe Cards and Tarot Deck
A trove of the American poet's personal possessions recently sold at auction for more than $1 million
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
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
'Dracula's Castle' Is Now Offering Visitors Free Covid-19 Vaccinations
Bran Castle's connections to the vampire may be as mythic as the monster himself, but the site remains a popular Romanian attraction
Before He Wrote a Thesaurus, Roget Had to Escape Napoleon's Dragnet
At the dawn of the 19th century, the young Brit got caught in an international crisis while touring Europe
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
In Search of the Authentic Ernest Hemingway
Take a deep-dive into the story behind this rarely published Smithsonian portrait of the legendary writer
Women Resistance Fighters of WWII, the Secret Lives of Ants and Other New Books to Read
These April releases elevate overlooked stories and offer insights on oft-discussed topics
Men Have Feared Women for Millennia. Just Look at the Monsters of Greek Mythology
A new collection of essays considers how the villainous women of classical antiquity, from Medusa to the Sphinx, resonate in contemporary Western society
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
This Hans Christian Andersen Museum Asks You to Step Into a Fairy Tale
Opening soon in the storyteller's hometown of Odense, Denmark, the museum allows visitors to experience his multilayered stories
The Extraordinary Disappearing Act of a Novelist Banned by the Nazis
Driven into exile because of her work’s “anti-German” themes, Irmgard Keun took her own life—or did she?
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