Tired of parsing and translating, he imagines that these acts make up the sum and substance of college courses in the Classics and turns with relief to something else. If modern literature is the ...

Journalist Terence Smith reflects on decades of reporting on American presidents ... characters in American literature. In the recent Broadway update of the classic American story, actor Jeff ...

surpasses its goal....Congatulations to contributors, editors, and publishers on what will become a classic in the field ... and authoritative volume that any student or scholar of Latin American ...

There is a wealth of classic literature, from Mary Shelley and Jane Austen to Nick Joaquin and Haruki Murakami, that readers can re-read or begin reading this Christmas and beyond.

If English Literature wasn’t your favourite ... itself to 90s teen hit Clueless, to give the book equivalent of a new TV adaptation of the classic. Although the reviews weren’t wholly ...

This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their history and their literary culture. Together, an international team of authors make clear that ...

The book was—another defining American quality—athletic, optimistic, and soulful.” Athletic, optimistic, and soulful. That’s America, and that’s the stuff of great literature.

The classics would be Hawthorne, Stowe, Dickinson, Poe, James, Wharton. Those guys. And gals. Or shall we say, women. No one reads them. Well, I do. But I’m a freak. Or rather, I studied literature in ...