The Cold War was a war of armaments and ideologies—but it was also a war of words, fought in classrooms, libraries, and on the printed page.

But it’s when discussion of the American Dream gets closer to home that her West Virginia students light up. “One thing ...

Writers have been naming their characters after real people for centuries. Oscar Wilde named his eponymous character Dorian ...

Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the ...

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

Despite being one of the most iconic novels of all time and a symbol of American literary excellence, “The Catcher in the Rye ...

Jean Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh in Nolan’s Oppenheimer, was a real-life figure whose story is inextricable from Robert ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, ...

It’s been 100 years since The Great Gatsby was first published, and its legacy is still deeply woven into the fabric of New York City and Long Island. From its inspiration on the Gold Coast to its ...

The US-China trade war escalated. The White House said its tariffs on Chinese goods would effectively be 145 percent and ...

it’s as much a coming-of-age story for its characters as it is for the United States, a country that is forever losing its innocence. The brutal phoenix of American history remains constant in ...

The 20th-century idea of an “American Dream” – where a sizable majority of people in the US could become or aspire to become middle-class, affluent or even extremely wealthy – is mostly ...