Someone analyzed the worth of wizard money—and it really puts Harry's wealth into perspective.

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J.K. Rowling continues to expand the Harry Potter universe ahead of the November release of the spin-off movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The Open Syllabus Project just released data on the most frequently assigned books at colleges and universities around the English-speaking world.
A library stocked with these superlatives would be very impressive.
The writer found a hidden garden in just the way that her novel's protagonist did.
“The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots” had gone undiscovered for over a century.
It's more than just tradition.
Shakespeare’s cultural position is pretty secure. He doesn’t need to be rescued from obscurity. Yet certain plays tend to dominate bookshelves, stages, and classrooms, leaving many others largely unread and unperformed.
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' changed world literature, but there was much more than magic involved.
With a little help from Reddit, the librarian who unearthed the work identified it as a copy of the rare Cedid Atlas.
On this date in 1789, Boston bookseller Isaiah Thomas and Company published The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, which is generally considered to be the first American novel.
A new report in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest says no.
RBG, Scalia, and the rest of the gang love these authors just as much as we do.
Patience and Fortitude did not get a warm reception in 1911: residents thought they were "monstrosities."
David Bowie will always be remembered as a seminal figure in the worlds of music, fashion, and film. But he was also a voracious reader who often read a book a day.
Thanks to some hard-working scholars, Harry Potter, Winnie the Pooh, and Bilbo Baggins are now getting kids hooked on the language of Virgil.
Professor Sharon Ruston surveys the scientific background to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, considering contemporary investigations into resuscitation, galvanism, and the possibility of states between life and death.
Here's what your favorite book characters would look like in real life.
The Folger Shakespeare Library has announced that copies of the First Folio will visit all 50 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico as part of a Shakespeare celebration.