Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

Born on July 21. 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway was the second-oldest of six siblings. His mother was a local musician who taught him to play the cello while his father brought him out to the family’s ...

Sophie Oliver guides us inside the remarkable home of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in Paris ... at University of Pennsylvania. Liesl Olson, author of Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford, 2009 ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century ...

Two previously unknown poems by Virginia Woolf have been found in a library at the University of Texas at Austin. They are ...

Black Man. Revolutionary. James Baldwin is all of this and more. Some fall in love with his characters, and others find ...

In Notes from Underground,” Frank asserts, the writing explodes and implodes and all the time the writer is trapped inside it, not only unable to get out, but unable to see what he has gotten himself ...

The data are reminiscent of American novelist and playwright Gertrude Stein’s comment following a disappointing visit to her childhood hometown, where she had hoped to see familiar sites from ...

Viking, a global leader in experiential travel which offers river, ocean and expedition voyages on all seven continents, today announced a new collaboration with Freddie Strickland and Ben Gifford at ...

Kit Spencer does not enjoy reading, until one day her friends bring her to the local library where Kit realizes she’s a ...