Regarding Heather Mac Donald’s “Does Harvard Consider Oscar Wilde ‘Marginalized’?” (op-ed, March 31): Nothing could be more depressing than to see a literature curriculum determined by identity ...

One year ago, the public debate over the new Common Core standards in education centered on the fate of literature in English classes. Critics charged that the standards risked crowding out ...

Roosevelt Montás was born in a rural village in the Dominican Republic and immigrated to the United States when he was eleven years old. He attended public schools in Queens, where he took classes in ...

As fans celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, scholars are still combing over documents to solve the mystery shrouding her final days.

G.K. Chesterton, the great British writer and Catholic convert of the early 20th century, recognized this in an almost ...

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 ...

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 ...

They've turned The Great Gatsby into a video game again, and this time it's not that bad. The player of the game—which you can find on the website Great Gatsby Game—controls Nick Carraway as he fights ...

Thanks to strengthened financial reporting and governance laws, a growing number of corporate executives in the United States have exchanged pinstripes for jail stripes. It makes the public wonder ...

In truth, the holiday we are about to celebrate is actually not one but two: There is the spiritual or religious event, ...