The National Endowment for the Arts has been surveying people for decades, and the number of people who even claim to read ...

Virginia Woolf.

A New Musical of Pride and Prejudice. Where wit and romance meet, a writer finds her true voice. Learn more here!

Born Flora Jane Timms in 1876 into rural poverty in Oxfordshire, she was a bookish child who harboured a deep desire to write ...

We can't think of anything better than listening to one of these books while taking a walk in the summer sunshine.

The actor stars in "The Evening Hour," set in an Appalachian mining town, and recently filmed a new adaptation of Jane Austen ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner — often better known simply as J.M.W. Turner — is revered perhaps more than any other artist to ...

Low literacy. A drop in recreational reading. Students who can’t finish texts. A book industry of falling margins. The ...

Today's guest is University of Pennsylvania historian Sophia Rosenfeld, the author of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life. Her book explores why we've come to basically equate ...

Between commentary on a holiday now past and pending legislation now passed, the political folks need to do some catching up.

To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition spotlights her complicated relationship with the English city ...