The Drawings of Victor Hugo highlights the famous French writer's love of drawing in a show of 70 of his illustrations French ...

This is exactly why he makes the list of the most tragic classic books. Sometimes, you simply need a good cry. But Hugo is ...

Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo are ... era struggles or Hugo’s poetic call for revolution, their stories continue to inspire and provoke thought, proving that true literary power transcends ...

The eclectic, prolific author wrote more than 90 novels — primarily fantasy and science fiction, but also horror, erotica, mysteries and historical fiction. If you’ve never read her work, here ...

As we learn the full melodrama of the so-called Signal "scandal" of inviting left-wing, Trump-despising, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg onto a supposedly secure conference list involving top ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

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It was, I felt, already a potentially irresistible story. And then I read about Victor Grayson. Grayson was a firebrand mob orator who had, at the age of 26, sensationally snatched a Yorkshire ...

Jeremy Workman’s documentary looks back at a project that may sound like a joke but had serious underpinnings. By Alissa Wilkinson Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at ...