""O God save me--from myself,"" wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1813, lying penniless in a sweat-soaked bed in a Bath inn, poisoned by opium, his literary career and personal life in shambles. It was ...

Opposite the title page of "This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer" is a list of Richard Holmes's previous books. Over the years I seem to have read nearly all of them except "Shelley ...

In Falling Upwards, writer Richard Holmes tells the story of early balloon flight—and of the nervy scientists who risked life and limb to take their experiments into the air. Among their discoveries?

Richard L. Holmes, who became a central figure in thwarting a federal challenge to Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act, has died of colon and liver cancer. He was 73. Holmes died Monday in his Portland ...