Some of the greatest characters and stories in English are rescued from their Middle English exile in Peter Ackroyd's sprightly modern rendering of Chaucer's 14th-century masterwork.
November 24: Today marks the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Envisioning an eventual career in the Church, Darwin had boarded the Beagle on the belief that “the pursuit of Natural…
What children's book character do Noam Chomsky, Newt Gingrich, and Hugh Hefner share an affection for? Readers of this blog will remember our asking that question…
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