Restlessness takes over once these classics open their grip. Pacing, voice and emotional pull turn long-revered texts into ...

When you read Tolstoy in English, you are reading someone else's interpretation. Translators make thousands of invisible ...

Modern Classics is a series in which writers argue for one of their favorite contemporary books that deserves an induction into the pantheon of literary classics Authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, ...

Essayist and former editor of The American Scholar Epstein (In a Cardboard Box: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage) assembles a stellar cast of 25 contemporary authors to explore how and when ...

Welcome to our new blog: Bookin’, presented by Quail Ridge Books and WRAL.com! At least twice weekly, we will be bringing you the best reading lists, book reviews, book news and author interviews in ...

TOWARD the close of the eighteenth century there appeared in Germany, under the lead of Tieck, Novalis, and the Schlegels, a class of writers and of writings known as the Romantic School. The ...