French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables, but less known is his work as an illustrator – the subject of a new exhibition in London.

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

Markowicz and Mandel then sought out to figure out what was happening. "We open our book with a history chapter and the roots of this wokeness in totalitarian regimes of the past. We trace how ...

The weird thing is Tartt's The Secret History is one of my favorite books." "Anything written by Hemingway. I can't stand his writing style; it's just mind-numbing to me. I still remember the ...

The eclectic, prolific author wrote more than 90 novels — primarily fantasy and science fiction, but also horror, erotica, mysteries and historical fiction. If you’ve never read her work, here ...

Breaking through a walled-off panel, the officials found a cache of 800 books and pamphlets, along with "illicit printing presses" and "forbidden walkie-talkies". The source of this "reactionary ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem landed in El Salvador visiting the prison ...

Life in the 1920s looked vastly different than our world today. From fashion and music to sports and travel, here's how times ...

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Steph Curry has a deal with a Random House Publishing Group imprint that you could call a 3-point play The organization that bestows the Academy Awards has apologized to “No Other Land” co ...