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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1812, Robert Browning is born. Sarah Moroz considers “the poignant sibling renaissance” of Ocean Vuong’s first photography...

The Brits are coming… to the Croisette! The British Film Institute (BFI) continued an annual tradition on Thursday, unveiling its 2026 crop of “Great 8” movies,...

Nobel laureate JM Coetzee has declined to attend an upcoming literature festival in Israel, writing a excoriating letter to organisers citing the country’s “genocidal...

“Unlike writing, which is a vocation mired with maybes, the camera, for all of its complex mechanisms, can only say yes,” Ocean Vuong wrote....

Principal photography has begun on “The Man Who Stole Portugal,” a darkly comic period heist inspired by one of the most audacious financial frauds...

Old-school standup celebrating the traditional masculine virtues? It’s fallen a little out of fashion. But it’s a different story when a masc lesbian comic...

I’m not a medievalist but fell in love with one because he seduced me by quoting lines—in Middle English—from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.Article continues after...

When her grandmother dies, Shana inherits a ring that is supposed to protect her from bad luck. And wow, does she need it! After...