I would tell a different story about the decline of literary fiction, and it is a story about social pressure and conformity.

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, ...

Published poet and researcher of African American literature Angel Dye will be joining SIUE’s Department of English as an ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great ...

They felt excluded by "millennial moral censorship" — but is their work pushing boundaries, or just pushing buttons?

Peter C. Baker on the rising trend of authors self-publishing their work on subscription newsletter services such as Substack.

Though relatively overlooked during its initial publication, “The Great Gatsby” has since become one of the most celebrated novels of American literature. It is often associated with the phrase ‘The ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and culture who rarely shied away from controversy. With more than 50 works ...

"The Great Gatsby," the great American novel, turns 100 When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge ...

It was simultaneously a commentary on the ability of literature to take us beyond our everyday lives – and the upcoming centenary of The Great Gatsby will be the same.

What really makes “The Great Gatsby” one of the Great American Novels is how it explores the hopelessness and unattainability of the American Dream, at least for the majority.

The great American classic we’ve been misreading for 100 years The Great Gatsby is more than cocktail parties and color symbolism.