Today I want to talk about the literary canon, the texts that have been judged to be worthwhile and enduring and therefore deserving of special status in our culture. I’m also going to talk about the ...

As the air turns crisper and finding a seat in Bobst Library becomes increasingly challenging, curling up with a comfort book ...

Do you remember the books you read in high school English? If you grew up in the United States, chances are your reading list bears striking resemblance to the syllabi of students across the country.

From Shakespeare to Milton to Nabokov, the world's most enduring books are being tackled by famed graphic novelists in a three-volume set. The Western literary canon has long been debated and ...

Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also ...

At a party in the early morning of Nov. 20, 1960, a man stabbed his wife with a penknife: once in the stomach and once in the back, nearly killing her. When another partygoer attempted to revive her ...

ITALIAN CANONICITY: What might the canon of great Italian books look like from North America and Britain? That question drove Luigi Ballerini and Massimo Ciavolella, two professors of Italian at the ...

If we want to fight white supremacy, a good place to start is by interrogating how it seeps into canonical texts like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit ...

In 1992, as a first-year PhD student at Berkeley, I told the English department chairman, a famous Americanist, that I wanted to write a dissertation on Vietnamese and Vietnamese American literature. ...