Part of what makes former first lady Laura Bush's open, deeply felt and engrossing memoir, "Spoken From the Heart," genuinely memorable is its portrait of her marriage to George W. Bush. Whatever one ...

SANTA CRUZ >> Sixty years ago, in the fall of 1957, a young former champion diver and basketball player from California’s Inland Empire arrived in San Francisco and, unwittingly, stepped into the ...

You've likely heard by now that Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. And it was not an uncontroversial decision. I'll admit to having reservations. I'm an English professor by ...

Harold Bloom passed away last week. An admired literary critic who endorsed the Western canon, a long-standing Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, his absence is a significant ...

With Oxford reading lists seemingly obsessed with the literary canon, it can often be hard to actually enjoy the books you write about.

DOHA: His Highness the Amir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani honoured the winners of the State Appreciation and Encouragement Awards in Science, Arts, and Literature at the Amiri ...