Cyril Lagvanec, Ph.D., will help you understand it in a talk at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie. The war was rooted in territorial disputes and ...

Playing out of competition in Venice, writer-directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard call on the likes of Tilda Swinton, Courtney Love and George MacKay to honor the British singer-songwriter.

In general,” notes The Narrator ( Jeffrey Wright) in Olivier Assayas ’ engrossing political drama, “things in Russia go ...

Bored at school and often ill, Robert Louis Stevenson developed a boundless capacity for invention.

Some sportswriters accused her of “deifying” Indiana’s irascible basketball coach. A professor of English, she also wrote about Marilyn Monroe and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

English readers can now encounter African novels as they were first imagined, in the rhythms of their own languages.

That’s not to say McKinnon and Samberg aren’t also funny, but this comedy sails more on the caustic British humour than it ...

The key to the mystery of Bernard Lonergan’s appeal may be that he has helped so many move toward a greater understanding of ...

Angela Lansbury got 12 seasons and some TV movies out of Murder, She Wrote in her later years. Agatha Christie is still ...

Her debut, 2018’s The Poppy War—written when the author was in her late teens, and the first book in a trilogy—was nominated ...

Stephen Greenblatt is a Renaissance scholar well known for his biography of William Shakespeare, “Will in the World.” Now the ...

A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her ...