In his candid memoir “Comedy Samurai,” the writer-director Larry Charles explains his comfort with failure and analyzes why ...

That’s how Geoffrey Chaucer spelled “book” in his Canterbury Tales, 625 years ago. Can you give me a hand, here, Geoffrey?

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The Huntington Library is renowned for several iconic pieces — the Gutenberg Bible, the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript ...

From pilgrims and proto-feminists to tragic princes and dream visions, Chaucer’s finest texts forever changed how English ...