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Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American…

By Johanna Dickson, Digital Publicist February is Black History Month, the annual celebration of the contributions of people in the African diaspora…

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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi It’s hard to believe, but What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is Helen Oyeyemi’s sixth book and she…

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In Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, Cambridge author Peter Conn gives us a taste of his recent work, The American 1930s. The Opinion Journal’s…

Books What a daunting task it would be to write a list like this, but fortunately for us, Norton (of the Norton Anthologies) asked 125 of the…

On the town … Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones in Carrie, the 1952 film adaptation of Sister Carrie. Photograph: Allstar Sister Carrie is…

I applaud anyone thinking of doing #readwomen2014, even as I’m not sure I’ll be doing it myself in any formal way. Making it a point to read…

Great books have their lives as surely as do their authors. Sometimes they correspond; sometimes not. Which one has the stranger life is often…

BOSTON — The Reading List Council has announced the 2016 selections of the Reading List, an annual best-of list comprised of eight different…

In 1996, Black History Month was celebrated by the government of Canada for the first time. Cabinet member Jean Augustine, the first black woman…

Some of the most wonderful fiction in English is by American writers. In this course we shall study five key novels of the twentieth century…

Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE was an English author and academic. He is best known to a wider public as a novelist. Although he is often compared…

In case you missed all the cookouts and night-time explosions, yesterday was the fourth of July, and we hope you all spent it wearing red, white…