If you saw Upstart Crow on television or on stage in the West End, you’ll know the schtick of Sheldon Epps’ dazzling show ...

The president of Harvard made an unjust decision in 1890, against his own directives, that silently smoothed the path for multitudes of much worse injustices to come – injustices that tore through the ...

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The lamentable state of contemporary affairs prompts Kaplan to yearn for the order of the past, with an international set-up ...

Many people depicted in a supposedly "groundbreaking" book on psychedelics and religion are now speaking out against it.

Hungarian-born British poet George Szirtes has been awarded His Majesty’s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2024 by the United ...

INTERVIEW: The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over ...

Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins established the Great Books Foundation in 1947. Their purpose was to expand opportunities ...

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