This post was updated Feb. 1 at 8:19 p.m. Your AP Lit summer reading is coming to a theater near you. In October 2025, director Guillermo del Toro retold the tale of Frankenstein and his startlingly ...

Teachers at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Washington, voted in February to remove "To Kill a Mockingbird" from required reading material for ninth graders, while still allowing teachers to teach the ...

To Kill a Mockingbird. 1984. Pride & Prejudice. Catch-22. Each of these novels is considered a timeless treasure, a piece of literature that impacted generations with its themes and social commentary.

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When you read Tolstoy in English, you are reading someone else's interpretation. Translators make thousands of invisible ...

Common Core language arts standards reduce the amount of classic literature students in 46 states will read for school, with potentially destructive consequences for students’ future college study and ...

Move over, Pride and Prejudice And Zombies, a new updating of classic literature has come along to win your heart… Or at least make you laugh. Yes, it’s Anne of Green Gables… in space. It may be less ...

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