To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Haider, 45, is not just a friend of a celebrated Bollywood singer — he is a renowned Urdu poet whose mellifluous renditions ...

The most famous of all Christmas poems ... publishing dozens of poetry books in his short lifetime (he died in 1906). His poem “Christmas in the Heart” describes the “glee of Christmas ...

Bimal Roy's 'Devdas', a 1955 classic, is a poignant masterpiece of Indian cinema. Dilip Kumar's portrayal of a doomed lover ...

It is befitting, thus, that he wants to call his book The Notbook of Kabir. ‘Who is Kabir?’ is a question that has amused, bemused, and infuriated scholars, writers, poets and common folk.

Last year, one of her most famous poems, “The Orange”, went viral ... Here she shares an insight into her reading and writing life... In book form: Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart ...

Find Your Next Book Romance Novels N.Y.C. Literary Guide ... There, she met Paul Éluard, soon to become one of the most famous poets in France. He would write her at least three poems about ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography ... topics as African American women poets, entertainers who wore blackface ...

Of all the dubious claims uttered recently by Elon Musk, I have yet to see a more interesting one than his tweet asserting that “a more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending.

Many of us have tussled online with internet trolls but did you know that trolling has its roots in Ancient Greece?

At 500-plus pages, it’s a weighty book indeed, and at times feels a bit ... echelons of the art world and were brokered or bought by famous auction houses. “I never told them the paintings ...