LITERATURE

Plath had many identities—and one of them was as a former college studio arts major.

One hundred European starlings released in Central Park in 1890 have turned into 200 million across the U.S. today. Now scientists are looking into their genetic diversity.

Brewing beer was an important part of women's lives for centuries, and Jane Austen was no exception.

The collection includes illustrations of basilisks, mandrakes, and bezoars.

"Even learning to read in your thirties profoundly transforms brain networks."

Ten cars have been decorated to fit the "Subway Library" theme.

Many of the Wakefield twins' adventures are typical teenage stuff. Sometimes, though, the plotlines of the Sweet Valley High books were, in a word, bizarre.

This table might inspire you to cut down your reading list.

Tennessee Williams is best known for having written 'The Glass Menagerie,' 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof.' He also hobnobbed with presidents and worked on a film that shocked the censors.

Was the classic fairytale meant to be a metaphor for the Gilded Age?

Channel Henry David Thoreau without isolating yourself in the woods.

Mark Twain provided the perfect character description.