By placing a marginal character in the classic modern novel, Mrs Dalloway, at its centre, Michelle Cahill’s metafictional Daisy & Woolf underlines the fraught nature of race, identity and migration ...

Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a “Seinfeld ...

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No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story of how the CIA smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain ...

The comedian, 52, had been off the nation's screens for four years when she launched her autobiography last year.

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Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

Heather Christle’s “In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf” is an unusual blend of personal and ...

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