Helen Garner was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1942. She worked as a teacher and as a journalist before her first novel, Monkey Grip, came out in 1977. Garner has since published... Read more »
On 8 August 1944, an Amsterdam tram took Anne Frank from Weteringschans prison, past the “secret annexe” where she had hidden from the Nazis, on the start of a journey to her... Read more »
It may come as no surprise that a country as deeply polarized by its recent history as Chile is also at war over the relevance of its preëminent poet, Pablo Neruda. In... Read more »
When Alice Vinten wrote The Real Happy Valley, she intended the book to be a celebration of women in the police force, the real-life accounts of those who served as inspiration for... Read more »
Roman police investigated John Keats shortly before his death, newly discovered 19th-century archive documents reveal. Keats scholar Alessandro Gallenzi discovered an entry in Roman police registers about the poet, under the misspelt... Read more »