Dr. Miranda Fay Thomas explores the history behind William Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear, currently playing at Dublin's ...

The Harry Potter child stars are all grown up now and while some have gone on to enjoy successful acting careers, others have ...

It's been almost one year since the death of TV icon Norman Lear, a man just as famous as the shows he created. A new biography is out now detailing his decades-long career and connection to one ...

Season three shifts the setting to Thailand. There, the show’s satire of super-wealth is framed through not only the lens of Buddhism, but also through many of Shakespeare’s great tragedies: Hamlet, ...

The Iowa Capitol dome is illuminated by the sunset Feb. 16, 2017, in Des Moines. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette) During ...

The HBO Harry Potter series has confirmed the casting of John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall ...

The death last month of David Childs, an extraordinary Skidmore Owings and Merrill architect, who declined to join the ranks ...

Faber is set to publish Jenny Uglow ’s biography of 18th-century naturalist Gilbert White. Alex Bowler, publisher, acquired ...

Leonard Peikoff dedicated his life to promoting the author’s vision of freedom and self-determination. But at what cost?

An unmatched expert in the language of New Netherland, Gehring is retiring after 50 years interpreting colonial Dutch to ...

Dame Imelda Staunton won a fifth Olivier, and US actor John Lithgow took aim at the Trump administration, as he picked up an ...

A peep from a bonobo is believed to mean roughly “I would like to…” and a whistle is believed to mean “let’s stay together.” But when combined to make a “peep-whistle,” it’s thought to mean something ...