You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...

The Blur bassist, farmer and writer chooses his favourite books. His account of the band's 2023 reunion tour, "Over the ...

A recent meeting of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club was held at the home of Karin Seager Cockram in November. President Ms. Sharon Klug called the meeting to order, welcoming the 15 members who were ...

Pulling from new archival material, original research and interviews, the book — the first major biography of Baldwin in ...

In his 1988 Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, Victor Nell said much the same thing. Reading was for ...

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The smattering of novels are largely by Palestinian American writers, among them Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Hala ...

Since opening up an independent bookstore on Long Island, I have often been asked by my former colleagues in Congress for book recommendations ... This deeply personal biography reveals him ...

Henry Alford is known to turn his obsessions into writing. His most recent book, I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell ...

"Blood and the Badge" by Michael Cannell is the tale of two NYPD officers who were paid to provide information and even kill for the Mob.

THEY say it's not what you know, but who you know - and when it comes to fame, family connections are often what really count ...