As New York and Philadelphia became hubs for publishing in the United States, there was a need to sell more books to a ...

A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...

Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den? 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.

The two longest stories, “The Undefeated” and “Fifty Grand,” and the closing piece, “Now I Lay Me,” are weightier. I ...

If the new fall book season looks overwhelming — Al Pacino’s memoirs, and a new Haruki Murakami epic? — if you’re about to ...

An ex-soldier, alcoholic, and newspaper editor, John Newman Edwards spent the years after Confederate general Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse searching for ways to venerate the ...

tremendous biography, “John Lewis: A Life,” the source for the background mentioned above. At Nashville’s American Baptist Theological Seminary, under the guidance of the divinity student ...

John Adams expected great things from his eldest son, John Quincy. "You came into life with advantages which will disgrace you if your success is mediocre. ... And if you do not rise to the head ...

John George Brown, born in 1831 in Durham, England, was an American artist known for his genre scenes depicting street urchins in New York. He studied at the School of Design, Newcastle-on-Tyne and ...

The beauty of a game of Werewolf lies in the treachery. In this film adaptation, the director focuses on mild comedy and tedious action instead. By Calum Marsh “Fanatical,” an eye-popping film ...

John McEnroe won three Wimbledon titles -- 1981, 1983 and 1984. John McEnroe was a winner and a whiner, a super talent nicknamed Superbrat. A lefthander with all the strokes, he never felt a need ...

John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman ... A revelatory edition of his diaries and a new biography upend the simplified myth of the anguished writer. Scotland’s hegemonic ...