When The Great Gatsby was printed in 1925, critics roasted it resoundingly. “One finishes Great Gatsby with a feeling of regret, not for the fate of the people in the book but f ...

Probing the disciplines, and the manners in which each operates, generates an understanding of human endeavors and history ...

John le Carré was one of the great postwar novelists, converting the experience of Cold War espionage into brilliant works of literature. Yet he did so without really questioning the ruling doctrines ...

This week’s Six O’ Clock Series was titled “Into the Archives: A Special Presentation of Holocaust Literature and Performance ...

Eggs were heavily rationed in the UK during WWII. A quarter of the country’s eggs were shipped over from America during that ...

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U ...