Literature

Michael Fitzgerald is the principal of a private elementary school in New York focused on classics, immersion in nature, and nurturing strong moral character.

A children's book featuring graphic illustrated depictions of sexual activity has won one of Australia's highest literature awards.

In our increasingly disposable culture, poetry waves the flag of permanence. It musters memory against the onslaughts of ...

Commentary “The Sopranos” debuted 25 years ago, but what makes it a masterpiece is how much older its ...

Here are 3 ways that literature trains the mind and heart.

Commentary Airport bookstores are often filled with customers, and surely some buy. I don’t. I just like to ...

Benz tells Lee Smith how he became part of the history he’s writing

STOCKHOLM—Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic literature in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to ...

Since Aesop, our stories, especially for children, have included talking animals. Why?

People pack all sorts of things when they head off on summer vacation. Most of these are standard ...

Commentary Another ANZAC Day (April 25) already fades into memory as I contemplate its powerful influence not only ...

It's often forgotten that being memorized is the best way to be remembered. For centuries, British schoolchildren had ...

STOCKHOLM—French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for "the courage and clinical ...

After school one day, a gregarious and confident sixth-grade student named Travis Curtright told his mother about his ...

Saint Hildegard was not only a nun, poet, and musician, but also a divinely inspired philosopher who observed ...

A unique collection of antique literature will be shared with the public for the first time in almost ...

Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi,” Robert May’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” ...

“I’m gonna build a time machine So I can go back and make the scene I’m gonna make ...

The story of Atlantis is not unique to the ancient Greeks, as other cultures also have similar legends ...