In Notes from Underground,” Frank asserts, the writing explodes and implodes and all the time the writer is trapped inside it, not only unable to get out, but unable to see what he has gotten himself ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Mauro Morandi, whose 32-year sojourn on an uninhabited Mediterranean island led to his being known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, died on Jan. 3 in Modena ...

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Readers discuss what exactly native speakers provide students with, collaboration between local and foreign English teachers, and how Robinson Crusoe didn't lie flat Feel strongly about these letters, ...

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What have our universities become? What have they lost? Yes, they are reliable providers of professional training, as Western ...

The earliest boat associated with the Humber was discovered during a local gasworks excavation on the east bank of the River ...

Allegra Goodman’s novel follows a pampered 16th-century orphan tested by a number of catastrophes.

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Elon Musk‘s latest comments on money make the same errors as we saw with Milton Friedman and the Monetarists. If Musk really ...