Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this ...

"My stomach dropped before as I made sense of the blocky first-grade letters my six-year-old had penciled onto an index card.

American history, when told well, resists the tidy progressions we like to imagine for it. Two recent works -- Ken Burns and ...

Mahajan entered the literary world with ‘Family Planning’ in 2008, a debut that drew attention for its sharp humor and ...

Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is one of the most talked-about books in the Indian literary landscape this ...

Hungarian-British author David Szalay takes home the £50,000 Booker Prize for Flesh; Kiran Desai misses second win with her ...

Howards End' still mirrors modern inequality, exposing how class and privilege define who thrives, who struggles, and who ...

Through her research, the sociologist Xu Lingling has discovered how those from rural and lower-class backgrounds are at a ...

A "masterpiece" mini series based on a celebrated work of English literature is hailed by fans as "unmissable". Bleak House ...

Szalay, 51, was presented with 50,000 pounds and a trophy by last year’s Booker winner Samantha Harvey for his novel about an ...

Ben Markovits's The Rest of Our Lives and Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny are among the finalists.