Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...

Today we remember the man who would have been 96 years old, not an unreasonable age to have hoped he would have lived and led. At the age of only 33, he told of his dream – and changed the ...

Coleridge was talking in particular about ... as they sometimes were by plague in Shakespeare’s day. Mark is contending with loneliness. Sam is married, with a family. The two guys meet up ...

Turning to a few of Shakespeare’s more vengeful characters ... But the Romantic critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously ...

From the malignant Iago to the murderous Clytemnestra, most literary figures feel personal passion. Trump’s anger seems more ...

At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are ...

Turning to a few of Shakespeare’s more vengeful characters ... But the Romantic critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously referred to Iago’s “motiveless malignancy,” since it’s hard ...

But the Romantic critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously referred to Iago ... including Dr. Anthony Fauci. Shakespeare, turning history into great poetry, comes to mind after all.

But that hasn’t stopped us from being fascinated by intelligence tests that attempt to assign a numerical value to how smart ...