by | Dec 17, 2021 | Literary News
from The New Yorker What’s So Great About Great-Books Courses? The humanities are in danger, but humanists can’t agree on how—or why—they should be saved. By Louis Menand Roosevelt Montás was born in a rural village in the Dominican Republic and immigrated to the...
by | Dec 13, 2021 | Literary News
from Deadline Anne Rice Dies: ‘Interview With The Vampire’ Author Was 80 By Tom Grater Anne Rice / AP Anne Rice, the American writer whose Interview with the Vampire sold more than 150 million copies, has died. She was 80. “The immensity of our family’s grief cannot...
by | Sep 23, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Slate Sometimes You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover Graphic designer Rodrigo Corral explains how he comes up with iconic book-jacket art. BY RUMAAN ALAM Rodrigo Corral Anna Kassoway On this week’s episode of Working, Rumaan Alam spoke with graphic...
by | Aug 23, 2021 | Literary News
from Law & Liberty Uncovering the Tao of C.S. Lewis by Samuel Gregg C. S. Lewis (AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo). In the midst of World War II, Oxford University Press published a short book by a middle-aged don who used the way in which English was taught in...
by | Aug 17, 2021 | Literary News, Weirdness
from The Daily Beast Edgar Allan Poe’s Final Macabre Mystery: His Own Death On Oct. 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 40. Alcoholism was listed as the cause of death, but what really killed him remains a mystery. by Allison...
by | Jun 30, 2021 | Literary News
from Prospect Busting the Hemingway myth A new documentary breaks new ground by exploring the American writer’s mental health and gender fluidity—but it still doesn’t go far enough By Lucinda Smyth Hemingway and his fourth wife Mary. Credit: BBC In 1949, Ernest...
