This book considers the influence on Elvis Presley of Black musicians, especially the gospel and R. & B. pioneers of the ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

We all have cherished memories of the books we read and shared as children. Big friendly giants, honey-loving bears, hungry ...

A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the ...

Drawings by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator E. H. Shepard have gone on display for the first time in Oxfordshire as part of a new exhibition.

Wendy and I had a surprise gift that popped up during Christmas break — an unexpected whole week of time to do anything we ...

Odyssey is the fourth, and possibly the last, book in Fry’s recounting of Greek myths and also the least faithful to the ...

To remedy that, I’ve found a rather unconventional cure: reading fairy tales. Most recently, it’s been the German writer ...

Everybody likes to complain about winter weather. “Too cold!” “Too warm!” “Not enough snow!” “Too much snow!” “Too windy!” ...

A six-year-old bends over a brightly illustrated story book, lips moving and deep in concentration; two brothers look through Wind in the Willows; while an older boy reads quietly at a bench. This was ...

It’s confession time; I’m an annotator (a person who adds explanatory or critical notes to a text) and often write in the ...

Counties Kerry, Mayo, Sligo, and Dublin were drastically hit when "The Night of the Big Wind" ravaged Ireland in 1839. One of the worst storms in Irish history took place on January 6 ...