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

What I notice now, as a journalist working during the second Trump administration, is that for all the ways that America is ...

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 ...

An appreciation of playwright Richard Greenberg, author of 'Three Days of Rain' and 'Take Me Out,' among other plays, who ...

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?

A growing nation : literature of the American Renaissance (1800 to 1870). Fireside and campfire ; Shadows of the imagination ; The human spirit and the natural world ; American masters -- Unit 3.

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

The life and career of Murray Kempton attest to the disappearing ideals of a dying industry. But his example suggests those ideals are not beyond resurrection.