Beneath all the alienation, "The Catcher in the Rye," which turns 75 this year, has a surprisingly hopeful—and ...

Franz Kafka is a 20th-century writer known for his literature that falls under existentialism. His work explores themes of ...

The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into the dystopian parallels of George Orwell's classic novel and analyze how its ...

Ernest Hemingway's novel featuring the bull run in Spain was published 100 years ago. Americans are fascinated with the ...

Twilight In Musashino turns one murder into a haunting Japanese crime classic about loneliness, betrayal and postwar tension.

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For one of The Rolling Stones' biggest songs, the band sought to capture its urgent energy by using curiously cheap recording ...

One of his famous quotes from Franny and Zooey critiques the obsession with ego. This sentiment remains relevant in today's ...

Army veteran Ron Roman published “Of Ashes and Dust,” an alternative history thriller about a militia member dealing with the ...

The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. An ambitious new season of plays explores his complex relationship with his homeland – and ...

Dev Benegal’s landmark 1994 film English, August is set to return to the global spotlight with its newly restored 4K version. The film will have its World Premiere in the Venice Classics Competition ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It strikes me as strange now — that for so many years of childhood our school day began with the Pledge of ...