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 ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Creativity is being stifled and it takes courage to write about what’s going on but “the troubles of the present time will inspire tremendous works of literature in the future,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

When Ilan Stavans, a professor at Amherst College, was investigating summer camps for his two young sons, he noticed a recurring trend: the majority of the camps were focused around sports or outdoor ...

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, ...

What is House of History? House of History is my little soapbox project. Politics, history, and cultural developments have ...

Whether is books that are hundreds of years old, or they are from the last few decades, some amazing movies have been adaptions of the classics. Sometimes the movies play it fairly straightforward, ...