These ten classic books had completely different endings before publishers stepped in. From softened tragedies to ...

The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers hosts Bovary from April 29 to May 3, 2025, a retelling of Flaubert's novel by Carme Portaceli and ...

An impressively large public braved some unusually cold weather in the middle of March to attend this year’s Arab History ...

Troy Baker, the actor behind Joel Miller in The Last of Us, recently reflected on the game’s legacy, calling it a benchmark for storytelling in video games. The Last of Us has long been ...

“Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men” at the Getty Center is the largest show of the artist’s work staged in the western U.S. in the past 30 years. Co-curated by the Getty’s Scott Allan, it ...

Gustave Flaubert's 1877 short story "Hérodias," which heavily influenced Wilde, sees Salome's mother using her daughter's beauty and sensuality so that Salome may ask the king for a favour at her ...

Writers such as Gustave Flaubert, who depicted Madame Bovary in this vein, laughed at this in their works. The aristocracy was into sentimentalism, which is why everyone read Johann Goethe's "The ...