January 28 stands as an important date in history, marked by events like the naming of Pakistan, the Challenger disaster, ...

Josephine Baker, trailblazing performer and civil rights activist, published her memoir, 'Fearless and Free,' in 1949. Now, the book is being released in the United States for the first time on Feb 4.

When Levy describes French author Colette as “glamorous, serious, intellectual, playful”, she’s envisaging Colette as proto-punk, whirlwind DIY-er. “She was a working writer who had a ...

In 2018, Colette Shade found a letter she’d written ... in coffee shops because that’s generally frowned upon. I love French press black coffee, and every day I eat oatmeal for breakfast ...

Critic-turned-novelist Jonathan Meades on the strangeness of Starmer, poor policing and his drastic cure for London’s ills ...

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Born in 1929 in Ixelles, Belgium, Audrey Hepburn grew up to be one of the world’s leading actresses and fashion … Continue ...

Today’s letter is an investigation of literary cats rubbing up against myth. I promise I am not taking you to Narnia or into the fetid recesses of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s songbook, but we are going to ...

The library confirmed that the Czech-French writer and his wife Věra Kundera’s ashes have been repatriated to Brno, the city in which Kundera was born in 1929. “Věra and Milan Kundera ...

French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer Simone de Beauvoir (L) and French lawyer Gisele Halimi have lunch at a restaurant in Paris on May 27, 1970. (photo: AFP / Getty ...