No literary figure from the previous century has adherents so personally attached to her memory as Jane Austen. We even call her by her first name. You don’t hear a lot about Charlotte, Emily and ...

Although Virgil Thomson’s place in the pantheon of American composers is secure, it is as a music critic that his influence is most obvious. His daily reviews at New York’s Herald Tribune (1940-1954) ...

I imagine it is a terrific stunner to learn that the man you’ve been married to for two decades is actually a woman. From time to time, stories like that make the news, although I’ve yet to find an ...

Persuasion is getting the Bridgerton treatment—well, kind of. Jane Austen's classic book of love lost and recovered has been given a modern makeover for Netflix, with a diverse A-list cast at its helm ...

Before the Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility, before the ratings-sweeping Pride and Prejudice, there was 1995’s Persuasion. Roger Michell’s version of Jane Austen’s last completed novel is a more ...

A visitor strolling through the galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago with a careful eye on the labels quickly observes that the lovely building would be sparsely filled – and certainly minus the ...

Demands on his time have prevented Jim Carrey from finding time for the sequel to “Dumb and Dumber.” This has left his co-star, Jeff Daniels, on his own, to seek ...