Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores the reasons writers and filmmakers inject humor...

A highly regarded scholar in the fields of American cultural history and print culture, Joan Shelley Rubin is best known for her writings on the va...

A highly regarded scholar in the fields of American cultural history and print culture, Joan Shelley Rubin is best known for her writings on the va...

In today's world, our television screens are filled with scenes from countless conflicts across the globe - commanding our attention and asking u...

Mary Shelley is best known for her classic novel Frankenstein, a literary masterpiece that remains one of the most frequently taught books in high ...

Alice Walker is one of the few living writers whose work regularly appears in the high school curriculum. While she is known primarily for her best...

'Much reading is like much eating, wholly useless without digestion' R. South 'If I had read as much as other men, I should have been as ignora...

Bon mots from one of the twentieth century''s most beloved writers These impeccably chosen passages are a trenchant reminder that Margaret Ra...

This general chronology of Voltaire''s letters by an eminent Voltairiste contains a chronological appendix, followed by a bibliography and an i...

Follow in the footsteps of some of American literatures most renowned writers: See the hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, that inspired F. Scott Fitzge...