Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. But it is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor has ever ...

The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to ...

The scene: a graduate seminar in literature sometime in the eerily becalmed days of the mid-1990s, when for an aspirant to an academic job, the future seemed poised to break in one of two ...