Percival Everett spoke with Dan White, Humanities Writer at UC Santa Cruz, about the creation of his 2024 National Book Award ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

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Harriet, who was recently announced as the 2025 Sunday Times Charlotte Aiken Young Writer of the Year, moved to Bristol from London last year. The 33-year-old moved to join her husband, Dr Michael ...

Pynchon gives substance to the ’60s, and all its revolutions, by presenting it in impeccable, enduring 18th century prose worthy of Samuel Johnson, and he extends the canon by writing in a ...

Casanova had a modest background but gained entry into the upper class through his quick wit and appetite for knowledgeImage: Fine Art Images/picture alliance ... He met Mozart and Voltaire, Prussia's ...

L’Art de l’équivoque chez Laclos ... Chamfort and the French Revolution: A study in form and ideology. SVEC. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. Journal Articles and Book Chapters ‘La mise en fiction ...

THE traditional conception of England among average Frenchmen is expressed in the words "perfidious Albion." Some years ago I made an effort to run down the source of the term. I failed. One meets it ...

His antipathy for the French notwithstanding, the youthful Napoleon primarily identified with the Enlightenment and the dreams of Rousseau and Voltaire ... all the while writing her scores ...

Between his art, mathematical and scientific achievements ... Keeping a journal, Plath developed a passion for writing early on. Now, literature students read and study her finer works, including ...

Going back to the Middle Ages, European art and literature have depicted the Jews as perverse ... But Wolgemut’s imaginings of pedophilic torture, Voltaire’s inquiries into bestiality, Burton’s ...