An edition of the Divine Comedy from 1564 recently discovered at the British Library in London including notes and comments ...

Thoreau proclaimed friendship “the secret of the universe,” and noted, “I can remember only two or three essays on this subject in all literature ... “My friends have come to me unsought,” Emerson ...

Trump’s war on my colleagues and students helped me understand the play’s political caution, which is not just about bad ...

The hyper-courtly Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote a verse satire in the mid-1530s that begins: ‘My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,/They sang sometime a song of the field mouse.’ Wyatt goes on to ...

Aquarter of the way through this century, regime change has become a canonical term. It signifies the overthrow, typically but not exclusively by the United States, of governments around the world ...