Sylvia Plath is lauded as one of the most essential writers in the literary canon, but what books did she herself get lost in? Find out here.

An Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter that belonged to Octavia E. Butler. As the author recalled: "I wrote my first ten books on a manual typewriter." Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait ...

This St. Patrick’s Day, revisit literary classics by Irish authors like Flann O’Brien and Roddy Doyle, plus discover a few new gems along the way.

The canon may be ... of approaching literary works in light of this one idea alone, style be damned. It has done a good deal of damage to reading, the study of books, and contemporary literature.

Ten years ago Rohan Narayana Murty hoped to do for Indian literature what the Loeb Classical Library—those lovely little hardbound books ... done for the Western canon. Called the Murty ...

In the centuries-deep Western literary canon, Trollope might be a defensible blind spot for ... Last year the Atlantic reported that students at “elite” colleges were forsaking full books for extracts ...