Before the Independence Day fireworks this week, try this short quiz on America’s popular books published during the ...

Another of Cormac McCarthy’s masterful creations, Blood Meridian (or The Evening Redness in the West) features many evil and depraved characters.. Holden is the ultimate epitome of evil. Perhaps ...

American literature. Full Episodes; ... Small-town Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch from Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of the most recognizable characters in American literature.

According to novelist and memoirist Susan Cheever, the critic F.O. Matthiessen once declared that all of American literature was written between 1850 and 1855. “What I hadn’t realized is that ...

Miss Webster, in short, is one of the personages that have been evolved in German literature at the same time that native American literature has been forming its Daisy Millers and Alices; she is ...

One of the most pervasive themes in American literature is “the search for identity.” Our earliest authors celebrated literary characters who separated from family, ancestry, and the past to ...

No summary, however brief, of American literature and the Catholic Faith could omit to mention T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), albeit only a passing and cursory mention in this case; nor could it fail to ...

Bruce Lisman is selling a trove of 18th and 19th-century American books and rarities. His collection offers a rare look into the foundations of American literature.