"I understand, on a deep level, why some of my friends complain that having a man in the room throws off the energy balance." ...

Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story ...

"Life-changing" for some, hateable to others, Miranda July's wildly successful erotic novel All Fours about the female ...

No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive ...

Jane Austen and Julia Margaret Cameron are distinguished women in their fields of artistic expression, and I admire them ...

The author speaks on the Nagano Prefecture town's unique positioning between Japan and the West, literary tradition and ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.

Woolf knew why. The patriarchy, she wrote, depends upon man’s “feeling that great numbers of people, half the human race ...

News about Virginia Woolf, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.