The Nation spoke with Brand about capitalism’s aesthetics, the novel’s relationship to colonization, and a literary tradition ... tells you one of these books is beautiful and points out ...

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.

Miller, discusses classic works within the Western literary canon. John J. Miller is joined by Titus Techera of the American Cinema Foundation to discuss Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In the centuries-deep Western literary canon, Trollope might be a defensible blind spot for a 21-year-old ... Last year the Atlantic reported that students at “elite” colleges were forsaking full ...

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 ...

It wasn't until the 1970s and 1980s, though, that 'Frankenstein' became part of the literary canon. "The women's movement ... magazine articles and one of his books were turned into movies before ...