The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

Joyce Carol Oates will discuss her new suspenseful psychological thriller “Fox” at the Mark Twain House & Museum on June 20.

Mark Cuban happens to be not only a great businessman, he’s also one who’s clearly at least attempting to be a driving force ...

In 1978, William Rueckert coined the term “ecocriticism,” defining it as “the application of ecology and ecological concepts to the study of literature.” He proposed three postulates about literature, ...

The Gilded Age takes some creative liberties with its storytelling, but many of the plots, characters and events are rooted ...

The show was written and originally performed by Hal Holbrook. TheaterWorks Hartford will host the first production of the new national tour featuring the Emmy Award-winning Thomas on Aug. 12-24 ...

The Broadway musical “Hamilton” and the historian whose book inspired it are getting the National Constitution Center’s ...

William Kennedy's Albany Trilogy, with "Legs," "Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game," "Ironweed," joins the Library of America's ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday dismissed claims the war in Ukraine is devastating the Russian economy, citing continued growth, low debt and economic diversification as signs of resilience ...

Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a “Seinfeld ...