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British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He ...

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Sometimes this was expressed as out-and-out adulation and other times as a bitter denial of any connection whatsoever, and ...

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Contrary to headlines claiming “The End of the English Major,” Hart is proud to say that enrollments at Columbia “are higher ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...