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

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

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

America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ first verse celebrates America’s beauty, the other three ask us to fully ...

"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.

With his latest novel, ‘James,’ Everett has jump-started a conversation about the Great American novel.

There is a lack of a distinctly 'Great American Fantasy' in literature and popular culture.