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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

READING, some time ago, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, I came upon this sentence: ‘Democracy is full of menace to the finer hopes of civilization.’ The idea, of course, is not a new one, and ...

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, ...

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 ...