At the forefront of Dundee’s enviable crowd of radical activists are two very important women whose stories are included in the exhibition: Ethel Moorehead and Mary Brooksbank. In the details of their ...

The final 200 pages of Navalny's 479-page book do, in some ways, have the characteristics of other prison diaries or of such classic Russian literature as Alexander Solzhenitsyn's ...

“I like to create roller-coasters in the ballet world, where the audience is really on the edge of their seat,” says ...

Augusta Theodosia Drane, a 19th-century English religious leader , published works including poetry, histories, essays and ...

The Greenwich Village rowhouse housed one of NYC's most successful 19th-century African American businessmen and one of its first Off-Off-Broadway theaters.

goad me to read the Kalma, the Purana. That’s from a devotional poem by Peero, a courtesan who fled the kothis of ...

Anger, humour and irreverence mark the poems in the new anthology, Wild Women. Writers include a former courtesan, a ...

From its inception at the hands of Mary Shelley in 1818 (scholars nowadays unanimously agree that Frankenstein, or, The ...

At Dublin’s 48 Gardiner St. Lower, a plaque honors the boyhood home of Greek-Irish writer Patrick Lafacadio Hearn, who is ...