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A new exhibition brings together portraits of weird children and nobility by an artist with an eye for human uniqueness. It also reveals their true identity …

"This anti-free speech, anti-intellectual, anti-common-sense action deserves all the scorn it can get," says Roy Thomas, former editor in chief of Marvel Comics.

The lasting effect of Final Fantasy is owed to a unique understanding of human stories that can also be found in the work of William Shakespeare.

The internet is full of wonky attributions and made-up catchphrases, from real life and pop culture. Can you tell your Attenborough from your Armstrong?

Playwright David West Read and the team behind the Broadway jukebox musical “& Juliet" have mixed high and low art

Hard Quiz host Tom Gleeson pulls off a Christmas miracle and reunites Mad as Hell cast for a one-off special.

NEW YORK — William Shakespeare still occupies his storied place in high school English classes, but the Elizabethan dude is under attack. Instead of dreaming at their desks of their Romeos, today’s teenage girls are more likely to figure out that Juliet gets merely a single night of passion with…

A book that argues Elizabethan poet John Donne should rank alongside William Shakespeare as a literary genius has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book award

AI is becoming more sophisticated, and some say capable of writing academic essays. But at what point does the intrusion of AI constitute cheating?

Slim majority means any member of party sitting in House of Representatives could block legislation. Plus, the meteorite that may solve mystery of Earth’s water

The image was reportedly made by Robert Peake, court painter to King James I, and is signed and dated 1608