William Shakespeare needs no introduction. It is impossible to imagine English literature without this literary giant. Without even realising we use so many sentences and phrases that owe their origin ...

Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. “I can’t believe you haven’t read this,” my husband said one day right ...

Chloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama ‘The joys of parents are secret, and ...

There’s just something about this skin that’s completely unnerving. It might be the three sets of eyes or the creepy legs, but I just don’t like it. This is one of the last things I would want running ...