As a GOP Senator, Alan Simpson attacked Social Security with insults and lies. Why has Washington overlooked his record?

When the English writer and humorist P.G. “Plum” Wodehouse died 50 years ago this month, most would be forgiven for believing that his death took place at some grand English country house ...

Why would we want to make everybody use the same tongue, which, incidentally, we inherited from our former British oppressors ...

What with all the unnerving Trumpian/Muskian hoopla to process, I’ve found it more difficult to read for pleasure since Nov. 5, 2024.

There are dozens of theater shows in Connecticut to look forward to this spring, from “Ragtime” to “Primary Trust” to “The ...

The different shades of colour and subtlety of description in General Manoj Naravane’s thriller, The Cantonment Conspiracy, ...

Several years ago, after some bucolic column about pine-martens, I was thrilled to receive a warm email from The McGillycuddy of the Reeks.

“There’s no one quite like Jilly Cooper. Her voice is uniquely British, and while she’s known as the queen of the bonkbuster, her humor and deft ­skewering of the upper classes is reminiscent of Jane ...

It all had the feel of Tony Blair’s greatest hits about it. In Easter 1998, the then Prime Minister sent his own aides into hysterical laughter by declaring to waiting reporters that the peace talks ...

G. Wodehouse once confessed. Me, too.) His books were translated into twenty-six languages. They sold more than a hundred million copies. Between 1965 and 1975, according to his biographer ...

And amongst the cast, it is the titular characters who shine brightest. Romeo (Kyle Ndukuba) and Juliet (Mia Khan) bring an enlivening and frenetic emotionality. Ndukuba captures so well the thrill ...