No summary, however brief, of American literature and the Catholic Faith could omit to mention T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), albeit only a passing and cursory mention in this case; nor could it fail to ...

Journalist Terence Smith reflects on decades of reporting on American presidents, wars On our bookshelf tonight, NewsHour's old friend and former longtime media correspondent Terence Smith's ...

10 classics of American literature. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (1884) Often considered one of the greatest novels of American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes you ...

American fiction has always grappled with sin, atonement and mercy. In the second installment of an essay series on literature and faith, Ayana Mathis examines what we can learn from forgiveness.

Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in nineteenth-century American literary ...

American literature, arising from the inchoate beginnings of the nation, has had its share of prophets. Perhaps because the nation itself has its share of sins against which its prophets railed.

Toni Morrison is an American novelist originally from Ohio who was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature whose “novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an ...

African American literature’s prowess resides in its capacity to transform personal experience into universal truth. When Ralph Ellison wrote on invisibility, he wasn’t just describing the ...

NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Regie Cabico, co-organizer of this year's Asian American Literature Festival that's holding events in Washington, D.C., after the Smithsonian cancelled a larger event.

The Asian American Literature Festival, produced and funded by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC), was first held in 2017 and included such events as this talk, pictured above ...