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I have heard stories of artists and writers being enormously productive during periods of war, plague, and national crisis, but I wasn’t one

He-Man and his weird friends are here to sell toys and save the universe...

The editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing series on curation, grief and levity, and the stories she hopes to read more of in the future.

Pauline Kael's review of Stanley Kubrick's Lolita is one of her best—inspired, incisive, exuberant

It’s like he saw it coming. “The Numbers,” the first poem in the vast first volume of the Poems of J.H. Prynne, opens: The whole thing it is

Literary Hub and Wildsam present: a literary road trip across America. Happy travels! Illustrations by Mike McKeogh Alabama • Alaska • Arizo

Do you ever feel like everything was better before? Actually, does anyone not feel this way? We’ve all got a different “before” in mind—befo

There’s a popular idea, fueled by countless Hollywood movies, of how writing a novel works. It goes something like this. Author is struck by

When I was 13, my father gave me a copy of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. Certainly in the way he taught me to read it, Lolita was never a book

Books, comics, and a new TV show that will deliver some much needed whimsy when you need it most.

Albert Camus has long been misunderstood, but a new translation of his complete notebooks offers a corrective.

If you like your romances historical, add these nine delightful new Regency romances to your reading lists.

Islands emerge in novels and poems as mythical, seductive places; they are separate from the mainland in a way that could be a punishment or

“You have to be a person who champions other work,” they told Hyperallergic, “so that you build the context within which your work can be le

Academics and media turned “machismo” into a cultural stereotype during the Cold War.

The recent shift toward figuration on book covers may reflect a broader desire for physical presence — proof of the artist’s hand in the dig