A reader says there’s much to learn from past American literary figures and that people here and worldwide are anxious about ...

In senior year in my boys New England boarding school English classes we studied American literature. Or, in 21st Century grievance diction, we were brainwashed with the American Renaissance.

The United States is a country as rich as it is varied, with a history that is inevitably complex and a culture that influences the whole world. In these circumstances, it is not surprising to find ...

Mariana Enriquez is one of the bright lights of Latin American literature; she has had one novel and two short-story ...

A queer literature professor discusses how early 20th century coming-of-age stories taught people about gay lives, loves, and ...

"I taught Amy Tan for years, but decided I needed to do better," Hoffman said. "I needed to grow in my understanding of Asian ...

Norman Mailer is rightly remembered as a belligerent bigot, a man who eclipsed his own books and became his own most enduring ...

Walter Whitman Jr. was an influential American poet, essayist, and journalist, best known for his groundbreaking work Leaves ...

Kenechi Uzor understood that African proverb long before he first saw a lion in the flesh, 7,200 miles from his Nigerian ...

Julia Alvarez describes writing as an act of “un-selving.” What the Dominican American poet and novelist means is that ...

The ubiquity of English translations, coupled with the innumerable Latine writers who create works in English, means that you ...

Banned Book Week highlights the surge in literature censorship. Learn about the impact on African-American stories and the fight against book bans.