Ahead of *Noughts and Crosses* at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre this summer, we look at tear-jerking West End shows that ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, ...

When the Three Musketeers films landed back-to-back on screen two years ago, it seemed to confirm that the historical action film was not by any means passé. It just needed some rejigging, a self ...

The epic 19th-century French drama The Count of Monte Cristo is a spirited adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1200-page novel of 1844. It’s almost three hours long yet passes in a heartbeat.

Chmerkovskiy, who is gearing up for her final “Dancing With the Stars Live” tour dates, tells us her favorite time to curl up with a good book is after her 2-year-old son, Rome, goes to bed.

You fell asleep on the tiles, a translucent peacock loomed, your sex opened and let out a very blue, very high flame. You wore a split veil, that morning. Silent, nailed to her chair, the seated ...

By Joumana Khatib Joumana Khatib is an editor at the Book Review. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. AUDITION, by Katie Kitamura In ...

His son James’s autism diagnosis in 2009 sparked British writer John Harris’s latest book, a swiftly paced memoir that flows easily between personal family experience, music writing and ...

Her romantic poems express the feelings and sufferings of a woman who was not happy in her family life and who lost her son. She adopted the pen name ... after playing chess with his host. The ...

[Read more] With La Légende de Monte-Cristo, the producers aim to offer a modern, musical and visual retelling of Alexandre Dumas' novel. The show will bring together artists from a wide range of ...

The irony at the heart of this obsession is that Arnault’s vast global empire has been built on failed families, as LVMH – now the biggest listed company in Europe with a market capitalisation ...