MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

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Our art critic goes room-by-room through New York’s Gilded Age house museum, reopening after nearly five years. Don’t miss the new upstairs galleries. By Holland Cotter The darkly comic ...

A medieval market town in Essex has been named ... including theatre, music and art venues. There's also an overhauled museum as well as a Physic Garden and the spectacular Norman church of ...

With her award-winning Wolf Hall series of books, Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as TV adaptation Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light premieres in the US, the ...

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It's the fantasy basketball playoff semifinals in many leagues. Here's everything you need to know along with some advice for the week, courtesy of Dan Titus. The Warriors are in a battle with the ...

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