Literature

Paul Kengor delves into Marx’s early literature and reveals a man whose writings were replete with paeans to Satan.

It takes a great deal of writing and storytelling talent to author a novel that can keep the ...

When famous Hollywood directors are listed, Robert Wise rarely is included. However, he directed many iconic pictures during ...

Most inveterate readers treasure those books introducing us to authors and stories.

Enough. Enough of COVID-19. Enough of the Marxist rioting in Portland. Enough of “cancel culture,” corporations and celebrities ...

When Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870, newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic framed his loss ...

NEW YORK—Most younger people probably remember Carol Channing (1921–2019) as someone with a larger-than-life persona and a somewhat ...

In September 1962, President John F. Kennedy stood before a packed Rice University stadium and pledged to land ...

Meet Laura Taninger. Laura is the heroine of Gen LaGreca’s political thriller “Just the Truth,” an investigative reporter ...

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time and one of the ...

If you put P.G. Wodehouse, Kenneth Grahame, and Mark Twain into a martini shaker, the cocktail you’d pour ...

There are two key reasons why I am such a huge fan of Brad Thor thriller novels: First, ...

Rudyard Kipling’s “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” was published in London in 1919, and in the United ...

Writers of dystopian literature—fiction about a dehumanizing or terrifying future—can act as prophets, describing possible disasters should we ...

Siobhan Nash-Marshall is uniquely placed to offer penetrating and illuminating insights into one of the darkest and most ...

“I don’t get no respect.” Comedian Rodney Dangerfield made that catchphrase the heart of his act. Sometimes these ...

We’re in the midst of a war. No, it is not about COVID-19 per se, although that’s extremely serious. ...

I recently re-read Jane Austen's “Pride and Prejudice” and was surprised at how much it teaches us about ...

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell, best known for ...

David Ricciardi is not one of the best-known writers in the thriller genre—but he is one of the ...

With deep emotion, “Longer Thoughts,” the third book of poetry by Theresa Rodriguez, presents poems on such topics ...

Phineas Taylor ("P.T.") Barnum (1810–1891), of Barnum & Bailey Circus fame, almost certainly never said "there's a sucker ...

With schools closed from the pandemic, the young men from Pennsylvania's Gregory the Great Academy, where my grandson Michael is ...

In 1821, the poet John Keats—self-quarantined with a dear friend who served as his nurse—lay dying of tuberculosis, ...

In 1978, best-selling novelist John Gardner published “On Moral Fiction” in which he declared,  “My basic message throughout ...

The coronavirus is concentrating our minds on the fragility of human existence in the face of a deadly ...

We frequently hear the saying “Politics is downstream from culture,” but we should consider as well that culture ...