Studies show that contemplating tragedy, especially in art or literature, can enhance empathy, promote self-reflection, and ...

A new stage production of The Picture of Dorian Gray conveys the cost of posturing online.

from parties and readings in the writer’s home city of St Paul to literary excursions and jazz in Great Neck, Long Island, where much of the dazzling tragedy of his novel is set. In the century ...

This sounds much more like an inventory of tragedy to me, as it is related to geopolitical realism, because it relies on revised histories to unmask realism, not literature to mask it.

And then, the Kovalam Literary Festival happened in 2008 ... That’s why the book, inspired by the tragedy, may easily be called The Queen and the Pauper. But what is known about the story ...

Its significance has emerged in a new biography of Wevill - until now a little-studied figure in one of the 20th century's greatest literary tragedies - which has already attracted criticism from ...

Toni Morrison’s gorgeous novel, “Beloved,” handles tragedy with care and precision ... Though this has been cause for criticism of Morrison’s literary work in the past, it’s not only a testament to ...

“It has these great literary ambitions to be more than just a sensational ... to consider the relationship between novels and social issues. “This book is a tragedy — it’s a human tragedy all around,” ...

Drawing heavily from the existing body of literature on the subject — credited in a four-page bibliography in the acknowledgments — Peace recounts the Munich tragedy and its aftermath in a ...

The tragedy is obvious. Twenty-two-year-old Diane ... Tayari Jones, award-winning novelist and current grande dame of Black Southern literature, laments, in the collection’s introduction ...

He roomed with his best friend Carrie Fisher until she hit it big with “Star Wars.” But tragedy was always brewing close under the surface of Dunne’s seemingly idyllic life. Even as he began ...