Departure(s) explores several of Barnes' lifelong obsessions — mortality, memory, and time. It's slim but weighty, digressive ...

George Orwell's crusade against the misuse of language resulted in his name becoming an adjective—and his writing becoming ...

A brilliant prose stylist, confident, amiable, and wonderfully lucid when talking about other people’s problems, Updike ...

In twentieth-century Britain, the Mitford name became entangled with the rise of European fascism. On October 6, 1936, the most beautiful of the six sisters, Diana Guinness (née Mitford), married ...

Philip Larkin’s last words, Julian Barnes tells us in the final pages of this affable book, were “I am going to the ...

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A motorcyclist died in a crash at Ooltewah early Sunday morning. He has been identified as Christopher Swartout. At approximately 4 a.m., Hamilton County Sheriff Office patrol deputies and traffic ...

Editor's note: See the latest on this story here. A Texas appeals court has overturned the historic conviction of former Austin police officer Christopher Taylor and ordered him acquitted on felony ...

Snobbery has been a terrible curse in this country. And if the toning down of accents helps to get rid of snobbery, then that is a good thing. But we might also be losing something important. There is ...

Officials have confirmed how a Katy-area couple died as the search continues for a suspect in the shooting.

A 14-year-old boy died after a shooting in South Baltimore on Saturday afternoon, police said. Police responded around 3 p.m. to the 2500 block of Washington Boulevard in the Morrell Park neighborhood ...