A newly annotated edition of "The North Adams Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne" sheds light on the author's mysterious 1838 ...

The American writer’s symbolic yet vividly rendered story depicts a maker of small objects of ‘delicate ingenuity’ whose ...

For over 60 years, the coastal towns of Provincetown and Salem have flown the rainbow flag as two of America’s most ...

The love of the written word feels woven into my very being, as if my DNA were encoded to seek out, devour, and revere language's power to transport, transform, and reveal the universe's deepest ...

Chester A. Arthur was president and the Civil War was still fresh in the national memory in 1883 when eight women, drawn ...

A scammer rang me the other day and said, “I have all your passwords.” “Good”, I replied. “Let me get a pen and paper and you ...

The below lists have been compiled from various sources, including PEN America, the Boston Public Library, the First ...

Novelized accounts of historical figures’ lives are hugely popular. But do we really want to draw back the curtain on history ...

A Hawthorne man was being sought by Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators after he allegedly shot at a pair of Redondo Beach police officers when they stopped him on his motorcycle last ...

Described by DH Lawrence as “a perfect work of the American imagination,” the book was handed a Hollywood makeover that found itself the brunt of ridicule after flopping at the box office. Director ...