So, to anyone who feels scared of poetry: take a class—knowingly or unknowingly—based in verse and the whole world of poetry ...
Raja Rajendralal Mitra’s seminal work Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, published in 1882. That book was instrumental in ...
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The best-selling author of The Shepherd’s Life grew up thinking the Lake Poets had nothing to say for working people. Then he ...
Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni and the Making of the Ugandan State. By Mahmood Mamdani. Belknap Press; 352 pages; $32.50 and ...
The late Syed Alwi, a beloved National Laureate and pioneer of Malaysian theatre, will have his classic plays revisited at ...
The piece, unveiled during the "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" reception, will sit alongside one of Robert Frost on the WT ...
It began with an idle scroll on Instagram — one of her reels, now sitting at 15.5 million views, caught our attention ...
The renovated rooms, dining spaces, library and terrace in Prospect House have been named in honor of 12 people with ...
A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is ...
An African American who spent much of her career based in the Netherlands, she said her race was less of a factor in Europe ...