William Shakespeare's timeless words continue to resonate, offering profound insights into the human condition. From Hamlet's ...

Aside from the pages of his tragedies and comedies, some of Shakespeare’s longer phrases and quotes continue to live ... cons of human existence. Using death as a metaphor, the Roman ruler ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion will shock anyone who knows Twain only through his writing, in which the ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

Josie Nixon, as her alter ego Juice the Trauma Clown, opens each performance with a screed that places a curse on President ...

Words poured from his fingers as he wrote. Words rushed through his mind on his long night walks (“the body strode on ...

Commentator Chris Hayes explains in his new book how our phones have become a constant "siren's call" for our attention ...

Samuel Johnson was an English author and lexicographer who lived between the years of 1709 and 1784. He is best remembered by literary historians for his famous Dictionary. This dictionary, formally ...

Pride in past valor may be best expressed in the St. Crispin’s Day speech from “Henry V” (Act IV, Scene iii), delivered by ...

Shakespeare already makes it clear that Lady Capulet doesn ... giving us an appropriate sense of how the swagger and the vivacity cohabit with death. Ever since Baz Luhrmann’s brilliant movie, we have ...

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, passed away on May 27, 1964. On his 61st death anniversary, we revisit ...