#Literature

What to call this Anton Chekhov, whom I first encountered in 1988? The Master, perhaps—of vision, decency, modesty, and industry, and, one might hope, in the old game of love.

Oscar Mandel, author, playwright, and professor of literature, emeritus, at Caltech, passed away on May 20, 2026. He was 99 years old.

‘Characteristically, its greatest writers distrust abstraction and analysis – the operations of reason itself.’ Thomas Meaney on Scandinavia.

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When asked what secondary literature Nolan consulted in working on his epic magnum opus masterpiece, he said none. None save Benardete’s The Bow and the Lyre. “It was my muse” —Christopher Nolan, @RollingStone , April 2026. Here is the link.

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A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

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From Latest articles | smithsonianmag.com: 'Lord of the Flies' Comes to Television for the First Time in a New Miniseries. In the 1950s, the Now-Famous Novel Almost Never Got Published

Nobel laureate says he previously considered himself a supporter of Israel, but ‘the campaign of annihilation in Gaza has changed all that’

Literature search is one of the most foundational steps in medical research. Before protocol design,...

One of the most pressing concerns after the First World War was the problem of “surplus women”. The census of 1921 confirmed the numbers: there were almost two million of them, creating “a question so

For the past month, I have been focusing on my work, which involves organising book launches and literary parties as part of Soho Reading Series (hosted across London). This dominates my life at the e

Staring at a blank document, overwhelmed by notes and literature, is a universal PhD rite of passage....

Staring down a mountain of PDFs, every PhD candidate and independent researcher knows the struggle....

On a state visit to the United States this week, the queen of the United Kingdom became the first British royal to visit the library as she fulfilled a mission to complete the set of toys that Christopher Robin once owned

British-Indian bookseller Sanchita Basu De Sarkar is among the three adult judges on the 2027 judging panel for the Children's Booker Prize

W hen JG Ballard died in 2009, aged 78, the broad outlines of his life were well known. He had published two autobiographical novels – the bestselling Empire of the Sun (1984), which draws on his teen