When Walt Whitman Reviewed His Own Book
“An American bard at last!” he declared of himself in an anonymous review.
“An American bard at last!” he declared of himself in an anonymous review.
Podcaster and YouTuber Simon Whistler has cracked the case of who responds to Sherlock Holmes’s fan mail. (Spoiler: It's not Dr. Watson.)
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The average page length has increased by 115 percent in the past decade.
From beloved classics to contemporary bestsellers.
The whimsical currency honors the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth in 1866.
Digital photo enhancement has made his book collection visible for the first time.
Paulo Coelho's allegorical novel has sold over 65 million copies. What made 'The Alchemist' such a blockbuster?
Until 2015's 'Go Set a Watchman,' the late, great Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee was known as a literary one-hit wonder.
Borrow these for Valentine's Day at your own risk.
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.
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' changed world literature, but there was much more than magic involved.
Mark Twain once said, "Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see, this is the chief."
'Beauty and the Beast' and other classics may date back thousands of years, researchers say.
A tradition that dates back to the 1940s has just been resurrected.
There are a lot of Edgar Allan Poe fans out there, and just as many who think he was a hack. In facts, his contemporaries were some of his biggest detractors—and he didn’t think much of them, either. In honor of his birthday, here are five of Poe’s most v
RBG, Scalia, and the rest of the gang love these authors just as much as we do.
In science fiction, fantasy, and superhero stories, people frequently do the impossible—fly at light speed, travel through time, be Superman, etc. The creators of such stories sometimes try to do something even more impossible by scientifically explaining
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.
Whether you've read 'Moby-Dick' cover to cover or just have it propping open your door, here are some little-known facts that will surprise you.
A new analysis of thousands of books finds that bestselling titles from the last few decades contain fewer strongly positive or negative words than older works such as ‘Pride and Prejudice’.
We know you’ve been wondering how to say “butt” in Elvish.