Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

For years, only the Shakespeares and Dickenses of the world have been the mainstays in our English classrooms, with no room for the Rokeyas — voices that resonate with our culture and identity. It’s t ...

Did you know: This proverb is attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, a great English poet and author of the 14th ... to the 16th century English playwright Ben Jonson. 15. Look before you leap.

Anouska: The most popular forms of creative writing were poetry and plays and the wealthiest ... Isle of Dogs’ written by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson, was banned. We don’t actually know ...

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

We know the woman is a street poet in the area. Her name is Etta, and she's often seen in the Quarter with a typewriter.Marco Rasi took the picture. He said the umbrella first caught his eye and ...

Venerated playwright and lecturer, Dr. Mohammed ben Abdallah, has commended Nana Asaase for his exceptional poetry and linguistic abilities. This happened after Nana Asaase had performed at the ...