Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...

The fact that Shakespeare is the most influential writer in English literature is simply held to be the truth now.

But these proposals are seldom implemented. Such, for several years, was the ANC’s ostrich-like approach to the rise and rise of the dyspeptic young populist Julius Malema, the first politician to ...

Julius lives in the cabin built by his long-dead grandfather. In summer he works as a mechanic and part-time gardener for out-of-towners. In winter he retreats to the cabin, surrounded by his late ...

Several Stratford theatre, music and arts festivals are receiving funding through the province's $50-million Reconnect Festivals and Events Program. Festivals in Southwestern Ontario hard-hit by ...

As an exercise in Cowlingite history, Burying Caesar leaves something to be desired. For most of the twenty years in question, Chamberlain and Churchill moved in such different orbits that they ...

William Shakespeare is undeniably one ... are some of the most quoted poems in the world. The very name Shakespeare has ...

The world does not need another general biography of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor from 31 BC till his death in AD 14, unless it has something special to offer. Anthony Everitt’s selling point is ...