F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

In his 1644 pamphlet “Aeropagetica,” English polemicist John Milton said, “Though ye take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; ye cannot bereave him of his covetousness.” ...

I’m writing this with voice-to-text. It isn’t going well.

This year's award winners are changing lives in and out of the classroom. Meet the nine scholars honored for teaching and ...

The ambition of the middle class is to have a nice house and take fun vacations, Renn said. The ambition of the striver looks ...

A new book by the New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy plumbs more than two ... originally envisioned writing a “shortish history” that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but he ...

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready.

Like many others, I majored in English for the creative-writing workshops ... modernity and his reevaluation of the canon (demoting John Milton, for example, while elevating John Donne).

In 1977, the year that Archbishop Janani Luwum was reportedly murdered by Amin’s regime, James Ngũgĩ was reborn as Ngũgĩ wa ...

Mike questions if Joey Aguilar has any competition as Tennessee quarterback. Charlie objects to Vols taunting opposing ...

T o Thomas Carlyle, it was “one of the shabbiest gospels ever preached”. Adam Smith was an early fan, but was still ...

The latest issue of "The Strand Magazine" contains rare stories by the iconic midcentury writers Ian Fleming and Graham ...