The fifth edition of the Green Literature Festival (GLF), the country’s only literary festival dedicated to environmental ...

Does the literary canon speak to our time? Of course it does. Whatever else it is, The Odyssey is an account of post-traumatic stress disorder. Romeo and Juliet offers enduring insights into teen ...

Contrary to headlines claiming “The End of the English Major,” Hart is proud to say that enrollments at Columbia “are higher ...

What makes a work of literature great? Why, to name but a few, are Hamlet, The Iliad, The Divine Comedy, War and Peace, The Flowers of Evil, Don Quixote, Faust generally considered outstanding ...

Gisela Delgado, who operated an independent library in one room in her home in 2002 in Havana, Cuba, says George Orwell's book, 1984, is one of the most popular and is almost always checked out. File ...

THE motive which urged our fathers to the establishment of schools was professedly drawn from religion ; the motive which impels us to-day is professedly drawn from politics. If we could have asked ...

Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture. We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature. These ...

THE appearance once more of Messrs. Charles Griffin's well-known Year-Book affords us an excellent opportunity for taking stock of the position of science in the British Isles. The volume is arranged ...

To those who have used this work of reference, the new issue requires no commendation. For those who have not yet handled it, emphasis may be laid on the words from the title-page: “Compiled from ...

When I was a boy about 11, I committed a crime that changed my life. I stole a book. I was a book thief. I found it in another kid’s desk and began reading, hiding it behind some boring textbook, and ...