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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

Reading Robert Frost in a newly independent South Sudan.

Now on its 10th sequel, 'Fast & Furious' has grown into a blockbuster franchise. 'The Fast and the Furious' is modest by comparison.

Reports in the underground press demonstrate how Juneteenth has been celebrated as both a social and political gathering in the twentieth ce

Her student—a former Nazi stormtrooper—was proof that no one was lost to the new regime, that every person might choose to refuse.