Mr. Hemingway writes of its essential beauty and dignity. If you do not think there is any poetry left in the modern idiom, I suggest that you read some of the dialogue in the final tragic episode of ...

Francesca Wade’s biography tells the life of the modernist American writer and her famed social life in Paris, and of how her ...

NOW for some others: “Dudley and Gilderoy” is the fantastic tale of a high-bred parrot and a lowly cat, who escaped from the nursery to see the world. It is by Algernon Blackwood and, if you like ...

Matthiessen’s politics drifted left. He quit the C.I.A. It was clear that he could write. When just out of Yale he sold a ...

Literature at its best is less a single voice than a chorus. It can shout from the pulpit or whisper from the margins; it can terrify, console, or remind us that we belong to a continuum of lives that ...

I hold no torch for the quondam Duke of York. Best leave that to Fergie. He seems to encapsulate everything our society ...

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that ...

The force and clarity of Frances Wilson's arguments in 'Electric Spark,' however debatable, do her subject the literary justice she deserves.

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in literature for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre." ...

On the morning of Oct. 19, the robbers shattered a window and stole eight pieces of "priceless" jewelry from the world’s most ...

Fans of the comedian John Candy want to know where they can pay their respects to the late comedian, who died in 1994. Where is he buried?