This weekend, tens of thousands of Estonians from every corner of the country will flock to the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds for the 28th laulupidu (Song Festival). ERR News outlines the history of ...

"Historical fiction is having a moment", said Cosmopolitan. From novels inspired by Shakespeare to clever reimaginings of ...

The ancient Greeks shared the Classical world with many fascinating neighboring cultures who rarely receive much mainstream attention.

G. Browne’s magnum opus is his A Literary History of Persia (1902, 1906, 1920 and 1924) and is regarded as his greatest and most enduring contribution to Persian studies. It is an intellectual history ...

Fragility: A History of Plaster by Alain Corbin (Polity, £12.99) If we now live in the Digital Age, should we think of the first half of the 19th century as the Plaster Age?

Anne Enright’s Literary Journeys to Australia and New Zealand The Booker Prize-winning author recommends three works by writers who, thanks to geography, may have never received their due.

The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in African literary history – the fabulous decades in the second ...

A partial history A nation’s history is etched in its records. The preservation of official proceedings provides the bedrock for understanding a country’s past and navigating its future.

Percussionist Josh Graham concludes the St. Charles Library's 2024-25 Sunday Concert Series on June 22, performing recently commissioned marimba works inspired by works of literature.

The National Parks Service has been directed to post QR codes that allow visitors to report history that negatively frame American history. The National Park Service will post signs encouraging ...

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