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The word canon has a long and involved history. Derived at length from a Greek word for a rule, the word fell into religious ...

Why the latest literary trend favors short, punchy prose over epics. Novelists Anika Jade Levy and Jenny Offill weigh in.

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Here is a question that should trouble anyone who loves literature: why is 'The Great Gatsby' considered an American classic while dozens of equally accomplished novels from the 1920s have vanished ...

Once upon a time, Europeans looked up to their writers and musicians as potential saints who could share through their “great works” their deeper perception of human destiny. To this day, we call that ...