Remembering Harper Lee
Harper Lee, literary giant and author of the beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird, has passed away in Monroeville, Alabama,…
Harper Lee, literary giant and author of the beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird, has passed away in Monroeville, Alabama,…
Quinoa. Pabst. Dumbledore. Prius. Anything can be a baby name these days. Your favorite flower is alstroemeria? Baby name! You…
If you were excited about the long-delayed release of Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee’s first novel, chances are good you…
Growing up as a middle child, I was lucky to be able to experience what life was like as both…
The literary world—the entire world, it seems—is abuzz at today’s release of Go Set a Watchman, the sort-of sequel to To Kill a…
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Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Mary Shelley and Lord…
Books like War and Peace, David Copperfield, and Ulysses are classics we think everyone should read—but when you take a look…
Sometimes it seems like classic novels have just always existed: they were there before most of us were born, and seem an eternal…
So many of the books we read in high school get an undeservedly bad rap. It’s not that they’re boring stories…
Whoever said patience is a virtue didn’t have to wait for Harper Lee’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman, to…
Sometimes it seems like classic novels have just always existed; they were there when most of us were born, and…
The holidays usually bring out the best in people, but every so often you witness the worst. That woman who…
It’s well known that some of the world’s foremost literary geniuses have some peculiar personalities and strange writing habits. We…
Not only do Australian teens not get shoved into lockers or have slushies thrown in their faces during high school,…