You can thank the likes of Edgar Allan Poe and other Romantics for contributing to the hype around Valentine's Day, an expert says.
Our love of the supernatural reflects a "natural human impulse" to find meaning in a chaotic world, experts say.
What's driving a renewed push for book banning? And what can parents, educators, and librarians do in response?
A new book explores how a history of rejection shaped African American literature and activism for generations to come.
A new book features 100 previously unknown drawings by Franz Kafka. They "show us a much more cheerful side" to the famous novelist and short story writer.
People reading novels on their Kindle are more likely to highlight passages with a linguistic device called the generic "you." Here's why.
Behind the feel-good gloss and redemption of A Christmas Carol, lies an uncompromising message about wealth and inequality, a new book argues.
"There is a haunting effect of old maps," says the author of a new book on maps and their power to illuminate the colonial past (and present).
A new collection of Ernest Hemingway's letters show him harshly critiquing his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and feuding with Gertrude Stein and others.
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