The animus of dramatists was stiffened by the Puritan antipathy to the theatre, but the derisive deployment of the term extended far beyond literature. David Hall, whose long and learned book traces ...

As Greg Barnhisel reveals in “Code Name Puritan,” a life of the literary scholar and World War II spymaster, most of Pearson’s career, too, was unusual. As a student at Yale in the 1920s and ...

As Greg Barnhisel reveals in “Code Name Puritan,” a life of the literary scholar and World War II spymaster, most of ...

By Megan Kamalei Kakimoto Buenos Aires is a literary city: Its residents like to boast about its many bookstores and independent publishers. Samanta Schweblin suggests which books and authors to ...

The first known UFO encounter in America was recorded in 1639 by pious Puritan and prolific journal-keeper John Winthrop. He is a foundational figure in the national pantheon and leader of the ...

From Marx to Starmer, socialists have a long history of being killjoys There is something grotesque about the PM snaffling freebies while he inflicts misery on the rest of us It should not be up to ...

The scholars and puritans may frown ... Sir Alex Younger. Cliveden is the literary festival for the ultimate insider: a place where the lines between literati and glitterati are blurred.

Fredric Jameson, a cultural theorist and literary critic who influenced generations of scholars and helped raise the international profile of Duke University's literature program, died Sunday. He was ...

By Clay Risen Fredric Jameson, who held sway as one of the world’s leading literary theorists for over 40 years, bringing his brand of rigorous, incisive Marxist criticism to topics as broad as ...

Academic and Maltese literary critic Charles Briffa has died aged 73, the Akkademja tal-Malti said on Saturday. Briffa, a professor at the University of Malta, was widely respected for his ...