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The Great Gatsby is a tale of luxury, lust, deceit, and murder. In Long Island, NY, Nick Carraway lives next door to the mysterious Jay Gatsby—owner…

To commemorate Black History Month, we would like to honor two groundbreaking American authors who celebrate their birthdays this month: Toni…

By Lauren Bailey The written word has the power to generate ideas, inspire revolutions, and change the way we view ourselves and our place in…

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon (1776-1789) “History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies…

There comes a time in every writers life where, if even for a split second, he thinks to himself, “Should I consider using a pseudonym like Max…

Corpus description This is a corpus of the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century British and American literature. It…

The last half of the Twentieth Century has witnessed the emergence of Latin American literature as one of the great literatures of the western…

T. S. Eliot with Virginia Woolf and Vivien Eliot, 1932 Photograph: © Archivio Giovannetti/effigie/Writer Pictures We hope you enjoy this piece…

Twitter is great. You can scan for breaking news or trending topics, fumble the keyboard in successive 140-keystrokes manoeuvres to share news…

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say,said Italo Calvino, Photograph: Alamy If lists are a guilty pleasure, then…

ENG 238 – Major African American Writers Course Outline Course Number & Name: ENG 238 Major African American Writers Credit Hours: 3.0…

The nonprofit publisher Library of America has released almost two hundred seventy volumes of classic American writing. Its black dust jackets…

Gene Jarrett, a CAS associate professor of English, questions conventional assumptions about black writers in his new book. Photo by Vernon Doucette…

My life has been transformed. Completely and utterly turned on its head, and it is amazing. I go to bed like a child on Christmas Eve because…

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