William Morris wrote with appalling fluency. Composing verse on trains or while sat at the loom, he could turn out ...

First, we scoured stories from coast to coast to find the most famous book set ... World War II. Oxford, Mississippi, is the ultimate literary destination for fans of William Faulkner.

From the invention of the decimal system in mathematics to the noble philosophy of ahimsa Hindus have contributed their share in all fields of knowledge and learning Over five thousand years ago when ...

Slideshows ...

Educated at Oxford University, with a Bachelor of Arts he entered into ... particularly to Kew's first Director Sir William Jackson Hookerand another well known botanist, John Lindley. In his ...

Across Mumbai's bustling cityscape, silent reading ... book clubs with mandatory reads or structured discussions. "After greeting the regulars, I lay out my mat beneath the sprawling Banyan Tree ...

It's an incredible moment when you hear a writer speak and then go buy their books because you're not just reading words, you're able to listen to the mind behind them. The literary events don't ...

For instance, William Dalrymple’s “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World” was precisely my kind of book: a fascinating subject by a leading English historian of the ...

Today’s reviewed books offer different perspectives on three distinct ideas, and that is worth reading about. The following book is available at many public libraries. “The Miraculous Journey ...

William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love PHILIP ... Philip Hoare has written something else altogether: a book that is by turns blissful and controversial, uncomfortable and seductive.

Speaking to us from the basement stockroom of the bookshop, theatrically framed by looming piles of books, Smith explains how the acquisition came about. ‘We’d learned through a friend of the ...

A newly divorced mother returns to her childhood home with her young daughters and reckons with secrets from her own upbringing in this beautifully written debut from an editor at the Atlantic ...