Essays

The film may end up being far different than the novel, or the film may simply be marketed conventionally: via promises of explosions, endangered children, gunplay, and gory death scenes.

Robert Irwin explains his work, Chris Ware tries his hand at animation, the secret to happiness is cracked, and editing of DFW is less egregious than thought.

The filly’s win at the Preakness has captured the interest of the public, not unlike Seabiscuit in 1938.

President Obama’s pick has an opportunity to create an NEA that values living, breathing writers.

A few further examples of why University Presses and literary magazines are necessary, beautiful, and vital.

Inside Higher Ed is reporting that New England Review is now on the chopping block. The Middlebury College Budget Oversight Committee initially announced “that effective June 30, 2009, the College will end its relationship with the New...

In February 1935, James Monroe Smith, president of Louisiana State University, decided his institution needed two things—a literary journal and a press. He drove his black Cadillac to Robert Penn Warren’s house and invited the newly-minted...

Markus Zusak’s 2005 novel, The Book Thief, shows that “YA” novels aren’t necessarily just for kids.

The Israeli writer celebrated a milestone this week, prompting some retrospective biographical pieces.

The newest crop of books about the United States’ relationship with the Muslim world has a decidedly hopeful twist.