The complete online text of After London by Richard Jefferies.

The name of Richard Jefferies is one invoked most often by association, whether with predecessors such as William Cobbett or Gilbert White, with contemporaries such as Thomas Hardy or W. H. Hudson, or with successors such as Edward Thomas or Henry Willia...

Richard Jefferies defies easy literary categorization. Labels such as essayist, journalist, novelist, rural observer, naturalist, and mystic have all been applied to this British writer who chronicled nineteenth-century rural life, including the adventur...

Shakespeare had actually retired from the theatre and spent some years as a lay minister in the parish close to where he grew up. . . . (Michael McGirr, Things You Get for Free) Parson Will reads Scripture every Sunday long...

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Unexploded car bombs in London led to extra patrols in the United States on Friday, but Bush administration officials said they saw no special terrorist threat heading toward the Fourth of July holiday.Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff urged Americans to be vigilant but said there...

In the summer fiction issue of The New Yorker (June 11 and 18, $4.95), D.T. Max profiles Tom Staley, the director of a vast and growing literary archive at the University of Texas at Austin. Offered the opportunity to browse through the collection, Mr....