The first week of August this year brought with it a chance to visit Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, an unlikely setting ...

Edith Pargeter was a writer who achieved fame in Britain for her historical murder mysteries. Less well known was her work as ...

The legacy of an 18th century poet said to have inspired Robert Burns and known for his famous poem about “Auld Reikie” is to ...

While Han Kang’s victory was celebrated as a crowning cultural achievement for her country, her work also represents a form ...

Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to independence with victory over the British at Yorktown.

In his autobiography, he wrote that novels “have been for years a wonderful relief and pleasure to me, and I often bless all ...

The luck (and literature) of the Irish You may not realize it, but you have Irish authors to thank for some of the world’s ...

For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of ...