In English classes throughout high school and college, teachers and professors typically encourage—and require—students to read “classic” literature. The feeling of being forced to engage with classic ...

If you tried to read Moby Dick, or Slaughterhouse-Five, and thought these books were "boring," you're wrong. The classic novels discussed here have reputations for being slogs to read, or difficult to ...

The classics are making a comeback. The great books of the past, which have been in danger of falling by the wayside as people read less and less, are suddenly reentering the zeitgeist. Guillermo del ...

Ryan B. Patrick appeared on The Next Chapter with Antonio Michael Downing to talk about books he considers modern Black ...

Read some great books, returning perhaps to those you ploughed through on school assignments so many years ago. Discover one of the pleasures of aging -- how serious books turn out to be more ...