Pity the writers of 19th-century Russia. Already hounded by critics and censors, they faced another dogged source of scrutiny: psychiatrists. This new audience of mind readers not only sought case ...

Among members of my family, the word bath is pronounced “baff.” It’s not that we have some hereditary speech defect or obscure regional accent. It’s because at one point or another, we all read Donald ...

Netflix has officially greenlit production on Notes from the Last Row, a Korean psychological suspense series based on the acclaimed Spanish play El Chico de la última fila. The series will star Choi ...

Essayist and former editor of The American Scholar Epstein (In a Cardboard Box: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage) assembles a stellar cast of 25 contemporary authors to explore how and when ...

Sridhara Venkatesa ‘Ayyaval’, a highly revered poet-saint active in the village of Tiruvisainallur in the late 17th century. He was a crucial early figure in the development of nāmasiddhānta, an ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Literary critics, cultural scholars and aficionados of the Mayans, the only fully literate people of the pre-Columbian Americas, have lined up to call the first fully illustrated ...