“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway famously declared, dismissing in a stroke The Last of the Mohicans and Moby-Dick, to name ...

The past few decades have seen a dramatic shift in how the relationship between humans and animals is portrayed in modern fiction, writes Assistant Professor of English Hilary Thompson, in her latest ...

Queer writers have been at the forefront of reshaping literature for decades, transforming narratives and expanding the boundaries of storytelling. From early pioneers who broke barriers to today’s ...

There's something fascinating about books that were once considered too dangerous for the public to read. Throughout history, ...

Christians are comfortable with the classics. But reading contemporary literature can be a search for truth too. In his introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation, C. S. Lewis famously makes the ...

WHEN you walk down the Avenida Presidente Wilson in Rio de Janeiro, you pass by a small, graceful building which we call the Petit Trianon. Brazilians are proud of the edifice because it is the home ...

In December 1919, 31-year-old Frances Steloff, already a veteran New York bookseller, spotted an empty, nearly street-level retail space (“three steps down and duck your head”) for rent in midtown ...