(WIB) – Banned Books Week, recognized each September, was founded by library activist Judith Krug in 1982 as a protest to the increase in censorship of literature. Krug believed that bans on books ...

Banned Book Week highlights the surge in literature censorship. Learn about the impact on African-American stories and the ...

Walter Whitman Jr. was an influential American poet, essayist, and journalist, best known for his groundbreaking work Leaves ...

"I taught Amy Tan for years, but decided I needed to do better," Hoffman said. "I needed to grow in my understanding of Asian ...

The ubiquity of English translations, coupled with the innumerable Latine writers who create works in English, means that you ...

Kenechi Uzor understood that African proverb long before he first saw a lion in the flesh, 7,200 miles from his Nigerian ...

The essays in American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860 offer a new approach to the antebellum era, one that frames the age not merely as the precursor to the Civil War but as indispensable for ...

Author-playwright Jessica Hagedorn, “Yellowface” novelist R.F. Kuang and poet Monica Youn are among this year’s recipients of the 45th annual American Book Awards, which honor “outstanding ...

Denver’s a deliciously unpretentious place in which to engage in art making,” said Lighthouse Writers program director Andrea ...

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige.

Donald Trump pledged to "bring back the American Dream" at the Republican National Convention in July. At last week's Democratic National Convention, presidential nominee Kamala Harris saluted ...

The teaching and writing of American literature in the twentieth century at Buffalo respect that heritage. It's found in Charles Abbott and Mary Barnard’s solicitation of "the contents of poets' ...