The Sound and the Fury: The Complete, Definitive Edition

It’s easy to celebrate smart people—detectives who figure out mysteries just by observing clues, evil geniuses who devise horrific ways of ending the world and the sullen brainiacs who defeat them, anyone who figures out how to game the system and come out on top. But let’s put aside the hero-worship, because we all know that in […]

Thanks to superhero movies and comic books, these days you can’t throw a rock without hitting a shared universe. But what might seem like a passing fad or novelty is actually as old as literature itself. Throughout history, writers have hit on the idea of re-using characters from one story in another, or creating a […]

So, you’ve found yourself in the 18th or 19th century, stuck in a gothic—or Southern Gothic!—novel. Surrounded by mysterious settings, dangerous characters and a bit of romance, these novels can prove fatal, but nothing you can’t survive, if you follow these instructions: Back To Top

The novel has been the dominant form of literature for centuries, evolving and changing in exciting, unexpected ways over the years. Just when you think we know what a novel can do, a book comes along that does something no one ever thought of before. Every now and then that innovation is so powerful, it […]