Ben Jonson

Don't be fooled by the title of this piece by Eric Naiman in the Times Literary Supplement. "When Dickens Met Dostoevsky" seems to indicate a pleasant anecdote of light literary history when, in fact, Naiman has constructed a rigorous exposition of ...

Dr Gerri Kimber is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Northampton. She is Co-Editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, the peer-reviewed Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press. Her main focus for ...

CNA has come on board as a headline sponsor of the 2013 Sunday Times Literary Awards, which will announce its shortlist on 18 May, with the winners announced on the evening of 29 June. "The Sunday Times Literary Awards is a prestigious event in the ...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has topped a list of teachers' favourite books, compiled by the Times Educational Supplement (TES). An online survey asked 500 teachers to name their favourite titles. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was second ...

In Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child, a novel concerned with the literary afterlife, a character observes that it is dangerous for a minor writer to attract the attention of a biographer: once their story has been told, further accounts are ...

The Government College University has brought out the 99th edition of the oldest academic literary magazine of the sub-continent The Ravi carrying literary and research articles by noted writers, journalists, professors, Old Ravians and Ravians. The ...

"You need to learn to think like a fox," writes Nate Silver, New York Times political forecaster. I went to Mr Silver to see what one of the leading statisticians of our times has to say about human bias; the fascinating subject of where our ...

There is a long and colourful history of literary hoaxes, from the fourth-century Latin document that allegedly ceded rights of the Roman Emperor to Pope Sylvester I to the infamous Alan Sokal Affair, in which a New York physics professor published ...

Nonfiction El Papa Francisco (The Franciscan Pope) by Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti (Ediciones B/Spanish Publishers, Apr.) With more than 8,000 pre-pub copies sold in five days in the U.S., this book is a testimony of the events that have ...