It’s difficult to know where to start or finish in any discussion of the connection between American literature and the Catholic Faith. The whole topic is fraught with complexity, as is the ...

For College of Arts, Sciences & Education English Assistant Professor Mark Kelley, there’s nothing as exhilarating as being out on the water—the feeling of freedom, the vastness, the intrigue of the ...

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. As a kid growing up in Vermont, ...

This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, in this reflective season, we find ourselves at a crossroads that would be ...

Which older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered? By Adam Bradley Artwork by Dominic Chambers and Tajh Rust Adam Bradley, a T writer, is a ...

NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Regie Cabico, co-organizer of this year's Asian American Literature Festival that's holding events in Washington, D.C., after the Smithsonian cancelled a larger event.

For many, Arab-American literature offers a personal window into the rich cultural heritage, traditions, and experiences of Arab-Americans not readily accessible in American popular culture. The scope ...

Washington Post critic Michael Dirda is depressed. After the election, he couldn’t understand “how to live in a nation governed and controlled by people that even Ayn Rand, let alone Edmund Burke, ...

THE first three volumes of Mr. Stedman’s Library of American Literature 1 cover the colonial and revolutionary times down to the adoption of the Constitution. It may seem surprising that three large ...