Whether is books that are hundreds of years old, or they are from the last few decades, some amazing movies have been ...

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.

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 ...

Author and critic Lincoln Michel talks about Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win and what it shows about who gets recognized in world literature.

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 ...

What could be better than spending a few hours with a great album on a long winter evening? Spending a few hours with a great album and a great book! Of course, it may seem that no one actually reads ...

I marvel at the science and technology that made the mission of the James Webb Space Telescope possible – an achievement that should assure us that America is still at the top of its game. At the same ...

Washington Post critic Michael Dirda is depressed. After the election, he couldn’t understand “how to live in a nation governed and controlled by people that even Ayn Rand, let alone Edmund Burke, ...

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 ...

Feel as if Lost is sometimes made up as its going along without a lot of forethought? JJ Abrams would like to confirm your suspicions… And then compare it to classic literature because of that. As ...