Literature

Two artworks chosen for display in London’s Trafalgar Square

Shawdesh desk: A sculpture symbolizing Britain’s complex colonial ties and an artwork featuring the faces of 850 transgender people are set to go on display in Trafalgar Square, one of

Significant Edward Lear poems discovered

Shawdesh Desk: Previously unseen poems and letters written by Victorian nonsense poet Edward Lear have been found hidden in a private collection. The discovery was made by University of Nottingham

Passionate Plath love letters to Hughes up for sale

Shawdesh Desk; Possessions of Sylvia Plath from the happier early days of her doomed marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes, including ardent love letters and their wedding rings, are to

Mini Statue of Liberty arrives in the US, retracing big sister’s steps

Shawdesh Desk; A scaled-down replica of the Statue of Liberty that has retraced the journey made over a century ago by its big sister was erected on Ellis Island in

Fragonard painting ‘forgotten’ by its owners sells for $9 million

Shawdesh desk: A”forgotten” painting kept in the same family for generations has sold for 7.68 million euros ($9.1 million) at auction after experts discovered it was the work of French

The Obama portraits are on display at the site of their first date

Shawdesh Desk: Three years after Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the paintings have arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago, where

Removing Teddy Roosevelt’s statue is the worst kind of pandering

Shawdesh Desk: In life, he was a Bull Moose. Over one hundred years since his death, however, President Teddy Roosevelt is being bullied himself by woke activists who seek the

110th birth anniversary of Sufia Kamal today

Shawdesh Desk: Sunday marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of poet and feminist Begum Sufia Kamal. Also revered as the trailblazing woman rights activist, poet and educationist who took