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Literature

  • The recent outrage over Google providing the WRONG—in our humble opinion—definition of literally as a viable one, got the digital team thinking about…
  • What It's Like To Play Mr. Darcy At Jane Austen Summer Camp
    This year marks 200 years since the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Britain has been celebrating all things Austen…from a proposal that…
  • After the illness and death of her late husband, acclaimed author and National Public Radio correspondent Margot Adler began to read vampire novels as a…
  • Simple, universal, playable, the ball is among the most recognizable artifacts of human culture. It’s also the driver of an estimated…
  • Clamoring For Tolstoy...In Juvie?
    “Books Behind Bars” is program which pairs undergraduates from the University of Virginia with inmates at the Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center to…
  • Dusting Off The Classics: Why You Should Revisit Your High School Reading List
    Kevin Smokler is setting out to resurrect America’s long-ago encounters. Works such as The Great Gatsby, Fahrenheit 451 and Bartleby: The Scrivener,…
  • Is 'In Cold Blood' Tainted By Found Documents?
    Nearly half a century ago, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood detailed the savage murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. That book is regarded as a…
  • Corey Olsen, English Professor at Washington College and author of the book “Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit”, discusses the lasting appeal and…
  • Exploring the End of the World
    If you don’t believe in Mayan calendars, and you’re not too worried about the next rapture that supposed to happen, then you’re probably not too concerned…
  • With E-book sales outpacing print books, the days of the heavyweight backpack are numbered. In New Hampshire, thirty-three public schools banded together…

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