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

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 ...

If my title leads you to hope this column is about amusing things in English, such as funny words like “hornswoggle” and ...

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 ...

Ben Jonson, in particular, called his friend and rival ‘gentle’ as part of a habit of mocking the Stratford man’s ambition to be considered a gentleman. When in 1596 Shakespeare acquired a coat of ...

The clue to Shakespeare’s ‘preternatural’ ability to endow his characters with personalities lies in his ‘vitalism’ (or what Hazlitt called ‘gusto’). As the likes of Falstaff are (in a phrase borrowed ...

A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative collaboration that happens in theater can be a model ...

The 2025 NFL free agency period will be a little different, however. Armed with new head coach Ben Johnson, there's logic in predicting the Bears will target some of his former players who can ...

Dunkin’s Super Bowl LVIII commercial showed Boston elites (Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Tom Brady) trading silver screens and stadiums for a recording studio. The trio makes up a boy band ...

Warner Chappell Music Nashville President and CEO Ben Vaughn, an acclaimed and award-winning music publishing executive, died suddenly on Jan. 30. He was 49. Warner Chappell Chairman and CEO Guy ...

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