Before the Independence Day fireworks this week, try this short quiz on America’s popular books published during the ...

10 classics of American literature. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (1884) Often considered one of the greatest novels of American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes you ...

Inflamed, impertinent and deeply insightful, D.H. Lawrence’s “Studies in Classic American Literature” remains startlingly relevant 100 years after it was originally published.

Journalist Terence Smith reflects on decades of reporting on American presidents, wars On our bookshelf tonight, NewsHour's old friend and former longtime media correspondent Terence Smith's ...

NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Regie Cabico, co-organizer of this year's Asian American Literature Festival that's holding events in Washington, D.C., after the Smithsonian cancelled a larger event.

The state senator from Chesterfield is now the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor and the first Muslim woman in the U ...

Starting with just $100 and some out-of-print books, Frances Steloff turned New York’s Gotham Book Mart into a celebrity hang ...

African American literature’s prowess resides in its capacity to transform personal experience into universal truth. When Ralph Ellison wrote on invisibility, he wasn’t just describing the ...

As a scholar of Asian American literature, assistant professor of English Lamyu Maria Bo centers her classes around three keywords: “diaspora,” “translation” and “multilingual.” ...