A book which I recently read, Weep for Africa by Jeremy Hall contained his recollection of a crude act of school boarding house tomfoolery at Kearsney College in then Natal. A fellow boarder had ...

An empty and boarded-up former pub could be converted into shops and flats under new plans. The former Nags Head in Great Bridge, Tipton, closed in 2009 and could now be transformed into new shops ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

“How, after all, does one dare, how can one presume?” That is Cynthia Ozick on the paralyzing challenge of saying something new about Franz Kafka. But they can be applied equally to Ms. Ozick ...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel turns 100 this year. What does its hero tell us about how we see ourselves? By A.O. Scott The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. We bring you a true grab bag of recommended books this week, united by little besides excellence and interest. There’s a ...

Book reviews: ‘Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ and ‘Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry’ Feature The dirty global trash trade and Robert Frost’s poetic life ...

Growing up on the Washoe tribal land spread across Nevada and California known as Hung-A-Lel-Ti territory, Kenneth Cruz started splitting wood when he was around 12. The youngest of eight ...

Iconic comedian Bill Murray joked that famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward could have "framed" former President Richard Nixon because his book about John Belushi was "completely inaccurate.

Wenc, one of the original members of The Onion’s staff, looks at the history of the hilarious humor publication — which was started in 1988 by students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Bill Murray slammed Bob Woodward’s 1986 book “Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi” as “completely inaccurate” to the point that he began to wonder if “they framed ...