Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

In India, literary heritage is rich in diversity in its culture. Through poetry, fiction, essays, and stories deeply rooted in personal and political experiences, Indian authors have carved a unique ...

Bram Stoker’s legendary horror tale Dracula was published 125 years ago and remains one of the most famous pieces of English literature today. The quintessential vampire, Count Dracula, has sustained ...

Author and critic Lincoln Michel talks about Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win and what it shows about who gets recognized in world literature.

Plenty of now-famous authors barely eked out a living selling their words in their own time, but today their tossed-off grocery lists, doodles, and marginalia can fetch millions. As The Wall Street ...

The Book of Kells banner advertising the outside the library of Trinity College in Dublin Ireland The oldest university in Ireland founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I The treasures are on permanent ...

Commissioner Jules Maigret, French literature’s most famous detective, is a therapist in disguise. Well, not really, but he’s a detective who would have been a therapist, given the opportunity. When ...