Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — because they were beginning to think about their future differently.

While researchers have suggested that Locke — who lived in Washington D.C. but mentored many Harlem Renaissance writers and poets — identified as gay among his friends and peers, they say he ...

Life It's time to celebrate a renaissance in English nature writing. Musing on John Lewis-Stempel's latest book, England: A natural history, James McConnachie marks the flowering of other, more ...