It plays a much smaller role in our national life, and this has a dehumanizing effect on our culture.

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

Virginia Woolf.

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 ...

Farewell to Will and Jane? The bank says it welcomes ideas ranging from nature and architectural landmarks to arts, sport and ...

The Bank of England is inviting ideas for images to place on its notes—a reminder that money and artistry have long been ...

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 ...