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 ...

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 ...

Great, emotionally-charged literature has been written about this season and holiday.

The first book to turn me on was a Nancy Drew book: The Mystery of the Fire Dragon. As a preteen, without any coherent understanding of my own motivations, I began to seek out those volumes of the ...

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 ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in his book Good Business, talks about the importance of “flow” (centeredness) in an effective businessman. He states, “At its most ...

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 ...

Anyone who has ever crammed for an English lit exam knows that if you've waited until the night before the test, there's no possible way you're going to finish some of literature's most epic novels.

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