The complete online text of Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes.

On 8 June 1914 The New York Times reported on the first visit of Georg Brandes to New York: "One of the most remarkable welcomes ever extended to a foreign lecturer was given to Dr. Georg Brandes, the Danish critic and essayist, last night when he delive...

Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was an influential Danish literary critic whose interpretations of such writers as Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Bjørnsterne Bjørnson are credited with bringing Scandinavian literature into the mainstream of...

From midnight to 5 a.m., when traffic on 13th Street NE has slowed to a trickle and the quiet is as comforting as a warm blanket on a cold winter night, that's when author Eloise Greenfield is in her muse. In the predawn...

If we'd thought to name our afternoon's pastime, we might have called it Spot the Bomb. We made it up while rambling through the neighborhood one overcast spring day: a game whose first move was a shouted "I saw the flash in the sky!"...