Brontë’s classic has long been a favorite among readers, and this February the novel is getting a new film adaptation directed by Emerald Fennell, and starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. The ...

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History has not graced us with many details about Shakespeare as a person, but we do know that he and his wife had three children, including a son named Hamnet who died at the age of 11 in 1596, four ...

Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day, shortlisted for the Booker Prize back in 1980, draws elements from the author’s own life. A three-time Booker finalist, Desai weaves the book with such subtlety that ...

The Great Gatsby, 100 years old this year, prompts this observation: it’s a great American novel because it deepens in meaning with the passing years. It’s a mistake, I believe, to introduce such a ...

There may be more style than substance in “The Infamous Gilberts” but it is very stylish, indeed. I kept thinking of Shirley Jackson when I read Angela Tomaski’s debut novel because Jackson wrote both ...