Although studying the language known as “Anglo-Saxon” helped women advance in the academy, the subject is fraught with racist associations.

The “renegade” scholar Stanley Fish is really a bit dramatic.

Does Herman Melville's 1857 novel The Confidence-Man have anything to tell us about our present day? Philip Roth thinks so.

A 1987 interview with the author of the beloved books One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

Novel reading was once regarded as an idle occupation, just as Internet use is now.

Where do the terms hawks and doves come from? The symbolic connections are ancient, but the War of 1812 put them in the political lexicon.

Langston Hughes' poetry was influenced by the drag scene in 1920s Harlem.

For centuries, the Caucasus was to the Russian Empire what the Middle East was to the British and French: a savage land to be dominated and a romanticized Other against which Russia could define its own “European” identity.

In 1993, divers discovered a shipwreck from the Hellenistic period off the coast of Turkey. It held marble columns from the Temple of Apollo.

When tragedies strike, it is through photographs, rather than think pieces and reportage that the reader can see the sheer scale of the problem.