American literature has given the world an array of iconic thrillers that blend sharp wit, gritty realism, and psychological ...

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Any cultural critic can complain, as I did in last weekend’s column, about the lack of creativity in American popular culture ...

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized.

“America today,” Wolfe wrote, “in a headlong rush of her own, may or may not truly need a literature worthy of her vastness. But American novelists, without any doubt, truly need, in this ...

The doyen of African-American crime fiction, who died 40 years ago, is most famous for his hard-boiled “Harlem Cycle” of novels featuring the detectives “Coffin Ed” Johnson and ...

Accepting the honor at Wednesday’s National Book Awards Ceremony in New York, Everett — whose previous novel, “Erasure,” was adapted into the Oscar-winning 2023 comedy “American Fiction ...

In the recent Broadway update of the classic American story ... Prynne is one of the great feminist characters in all of literature, says librettist David Mason: full of dignity and courage ...

American olah Aviva Gat publishes the first fiction novel on Hamas’s October 7 massacre hoping to combat the ignorance and apathy surrounding the hostages abducted to Gaza. 'We Will Dance Again ...