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?

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

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 ...

The Milesian Tales was a collection of ancient Greek erotic literature written by Aristides of Miletus consisting of short ...

UK filmmaker Joanna Quinn paid tribute to Gaza animator Haneen Koraz as she received the Annecy International Animation Film ...

Someone’s watching out for you. Yes, you’re a grown-up, but it’s nice to know, isn’t it? Someone’s got your back. You have a guardian angel, a protector, somebody who’ll come running ...

(CNN) — Lois Boisson continued her fairy tale Cinderella run at the French ... winning the next six games to book her spot in the semifinals. “It’s incredible. Thank you for supporting ...

J.R.R. Tolkien fans can soon add two display-worthy book box sets to their collection ... up on August 19 by new editions of The Great Tales of Middle-earth, which is comprised of the final ...

among them the Canterbury Tales (‘thilke that sounen unto sinne’), together with ‘many a song and many a leccherous lay’. Only his translations of Boethius and the devotional works were saved from ...

Sincerity and simplicity shine through every foot of this oversized modern version of the Chaucer epic tale. Here is rare ... on the wrist of an ancient Canterbury pilgrim (400 years before ...