LITERATURE

Historical figures like Charles Dickens, Thomas Nast, Washington Irving, and even Queen Charlotte all helped create Christmas as we know it.

Here's how Stieg Larsson's modern classic came to be.

How many have you come across?

As Stephen King once said, novellas are “too long to be short and too short to be really long.”

You’ll never guess what frightens these masters of horror.

Each year, the American Library Association complies a list of books that are challenged and banned. There are some books that get banned because of insensitive material; however, others get banned for completely ludicrous reasons.

It pays to have a vivid imagination.

There’s no tradition more satisfying than cracking open a good book on a sandy beach. Here’s how it all started.

August 2, 2024 makes the 100th anniversary of James Baldwin’s birth. Here’s what you should know about the ‘Tell It on the Mountain’ and ‘Giovanni’s Room’ author.

Quotes like “one bad apple,” “money is the root of all evil,” and “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” have been entirely misinterpreted.

From gripping essay collections to graphic memoirs and more, these banned books by LGBTQ+ authors are still worth diving into.

Celebrate the many contributions to literature that LGBTQ+ authors have made with these great reads by Danez Smith, Dorothy Allison, Alexander Chee, Alice Walker, and more.