Critics, possibly sparked by the gender experiments in “Garden of Eden,” became interested in Hemingway’s “androgyny” and ...

Nine miles outside the city I arrived at what I had come to see: Finca Vigía, or Lookout Farm, where Ernest Hemingway had made his home from 1939 to 1960, and where he had written seven books ...

Delaney asked to borrow my “The Old Man and the Sea,” which was required reading in one of her collegiate courses. I ...

In a new book, Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology. Americans don’t agree on much these days. Yet even at a time when consensus ...

Every year, January 1 marks a new crop of artists and artworks entering the public domain, a holiday affectionately known to some as Public Domain Day.

The fog scene, in which Jim upbraids Huck for playing a cruel trick on him and elicits an apology, Fishkin points out, is a rare moment in 19th century American fiction in which an enslaved Black man ...