Literature

Type “Holy Grail” into Google and … well, you probably don’t need me to finish that sentence. The sheer multiplicity of what any search engine throws up demonstrates that there ...

For a good number of years, I attended various poetry readings. Some were wonderful, some mediocre, and two ...

We have been retelling the story of the great adventurer Odysseus, as he attempts to escape from the ...

When you think of inner-city teenagers, what springs to mind? For many, it’s hoodies, video games—and probably hating ...

In modern psychology, we have books like “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway,” which are international best-sellers ...

According to Emily Freeman, author of “The Next Right Thing,” it is estimated that adults make over 35,000 ...

Imagine a world of perpetual feasting and drinking, where one was above the ordinary and everyday cares of ...

 Eleven volumes in all. Total length: approximately 22 inches. Width per volume: 6 3/4 inches. Height per volume: ...

I recently re-read George Orwell’s anti-Soviet fable "Animal Farm" for the first time since high school, and I found ...

In Part 2 of this series of articles, we saw Odysseus barely managing to escape from the land ...

When it comes to reading great children’s literature, I’m making up for lost time. I was not a ...

Marlon is an inquisitive bunny, and his curiosity is piqued as he hears visiting school students recite the ...

In Part 1 of this series of articles, we introduced the nine types of personality that constitute the ...

Like you, I’m horrified by the exponential growth in social chaos and totalitarian impulses ravaging our country. It ...

If there’s something book lovers like almost as much as reading books, it’s talking about books. About the plot ...

The “Odyssey” is the most famous homecoming story in Western literature and mythology. It is justly famous because ...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's fantastical world of Middle-earth may be make-believe, but for Tolkien it had a real ...

"The Water Margin," also known in English as "Outlaws of the Marsh" or "All Men Are Brothers," is ...

I’d been reading Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” to my 10-year-old daughter. I admit I was immediately motivated by my ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes this is true. A picture comes in handy ...

Readers will enjoy the new Charles Krauthammer book, “The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves ...

As the border wall with Mexico that President Trump is building gains greater and greater attention, so too ...

The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is too tragic and striking a figure ever to be forgotten. A famous portrait depicts ...

Anyone who has read classic literature knows that there are things in old books that offend our sensibilities. ...

Albert Einstein’s quote, “The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the ...

Since the days of Aesop, animals have been used as vehicles by which humankind has addressed its moral, ...

It was Lord Chesterfield, not a particularly profound thinker, who in 18th-century England correctly observed that "I am ...