Not long after COVID lockdowns began in the U.S. five years ago this week, many readers and writers started to wonder, with a ...

Delving into the literary archives reveals a fascinating variety of authors whose works once resonated within the walls of ...

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In July of 2020, a little less than six months after COVID-19 sent much of the world into lockdown, I reviewed three newly ...

He was the author of probably the most loved and admired novel ever written in Italian, but when Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, died in 1957 at 60, he thought his life as a writer had ended in ...

It is what we might now refer to as a bit of a “bromance”… In literature, the concept of ... California in search of employment during the Great Depression. Lennie – a gentle giant with ...

Mac Barnett, the new national ambassador for young people’s literature, explores innovative storytelling hiding in humble places all around us.

The most immediate source of controversy in any Great Books course is its name, which inevitably prompts the question, what ...

The Anti-Slavery Society's great postal campaign of 1835 flooded the South with abolitionist literature. Instead of bringing about the end of slavery, it triggered a wave of repression.

Silas and his Great-Grandmother Faye keep in touch via Internet, always bidding each other goodbye with a silly rhyme. "See ...