The theme of bad books versus bad readers runs through my recent publication Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction, which I ...

From left: Phoenix Best, Amy Spanger, Paul Heesang Miller and Saidu Sinlah preform during a technical rehearsal for the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis production of "Side by Side by Sondheim" on Jan.

Hers is one of several terrific performances, said Arifa Akbar in The Guardian, yet the production itself is a "paler version ...

Wilkes University, in recognition of Women's History Month, will hold an academic panel and ball to honor Jane Austen's 250th birthday from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 27 on campus at Weckesser Hall, ...

Dearest reader, you are invited to the most romantic literary birthday party of the last 250 years — please join the Wilkes University English Department from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March ...

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In the novel “Theft,” by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s ...

The phrase appeared on thousands of pages unrelated to Jane Austen before and during her life – and was a favorite phrase of ...

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Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to ...

There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated novelist Jane Austen. But is she really the “first” great English female author?