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 ...

But in each of these stories, as hopeless and tragic as they are, all end with a small kernel of hope. Redemption is found not in the American dream, but in the characters themselves.

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.

American literature, arising from the inchoate beginnings of the nation, has had its share of prophets. Perhaps because the nation itself has its share of sins against which its prophets railed.