As "The Great Gatsby" marks its centennial, Long Island's Gold Coast continues to serve as a living testament to the novel's ...

The Great Gatsby is more than cocktail parties and color symbolism.

One of the things I was most excited about for college was the opportunity to take courses on more specific subjects than I ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if ...

Mary Beth Early has taught at Champaign Central, where she teaches US History, AP US History, and American History Through ...

Mariam Rahmani’s debut novel is both charmingly familiar and totally unpredictable.

I haven’t read it since my American literature class sophomore year of high school, so I forgot a lot of the story, but I really wanted to be able to compare the two novels. I quickly realized ...

In the Hindustan Times, Abhishek Asthana writes that the best way to contribute to humanity is not through charity but by ...

I am reminded of my 1962 high school American literature class in St. Louis where we studied Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. In his semester ending review of the book, our instructor ...

The U.K. Christian right is increasingly drawing on a U.S.-forged playbook. It is also drawing on U.S. money. But the U.K.