Stephen Fry: What Jeeves and PG Wodehouse taught me about life
The actor fell in love with stories about ‘silly asses in spats and monocles’ as a teenager. Fifty years after the author’s death, he celebrates his comic genius
June 25, 2025
The actor fell in love with stories about ‘silly asses in spats and monocles’ as a teenager. Fifty years after the author’s death, he celebrates his comic genius
The real Jay Gatsby wasn’t a millionaire but a Pulitzer Prize-winning Oxford graduate. For a century, mystery has shrouded the inspiration for the hero of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel – until now .
The Ambrosian Iliad, also known as Ilias Picta, is one of three surviving illuminated manuscripts from antiquity depicting classical literature, and the only one to recount Homer’s epic.
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation is a verse translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into modern English by the Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney.
A museum is displaying a number of illustrations that featured in author Sir Terry Pratchett’s famous Discworld series.
A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront
