It’s difficult to know where to start or finish in any discussion of the connection between American literature and the Catholic Faith. The whole topic is fraught with complexity, as is the ...

In 1773, London’s presses produced a small book with a portrait of a young woman, among many other similar copies. The woman wore a respectable bonnet across her forehead, lost deep in thought while ...

This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, in this reflective season, we find ourselves at a crossroads that would be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harold Bloom was a strange, singular figure: an old-school, elbow-patches academic in literary criticism who managed to generate ...

American literature continues to command attention around the world, even if it seems to many abroad that Americans are not so interested in foreign works. Perhaps because of its position as the ...

I sat down with Tomás Ybarra-Frausto at the D.R. Semmes Family YMCA to congratulate him on the 40th anniversary of “Modern Chicano Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays,” his groundbreaking book of ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was born in the year 1835 and is considered the "Father of American Literature." In the 19th century, he changed how people write. His books ...

Washington Post critic Michael Dirda is depressed. After the election, he couldn’t understand “how to live in a nation governed and controlled by people that even Ayn Rand, let alone Edmund Burke, ...

Bruce Lisman is selling a trove of 18th and 19th-century American books and rarities. His collection offers a rare look into the foundations of American literature. As a kid growing up in Vermont, ...

I HATE been seeking for two years for an expression of the American spirit, as it manifests itself in literature as well as in life, in words as well as in works. For it is evident that if the spirit ...

About a year after it was abruptly called off with little explanation, the Asian American Literature Festival will return in September, organized by a collective of literary groups — and this time, ...