Where the Bard goes queer, and we're in love. A round-up of the best in queer Shakespeare.
The Hobbit was originally published in 1937 by George Allen & Unwin. This original cover of The Hobbit, featuring a stylized mountain landscape with simple coloring, is Tolkien’s original artwork. Here's how it changes over the years.
Must-read books published after 1950 that are bound to be considered modern classics. Here's what we mean by the definition and 100 of our favorites.
With a Trump presidency in progress, it's starting to feel positively Orwellian.
A refutation of the claim that Elizabeth Bennet might be a Manic Pixie Dream Girl
On the bonkers-bananasness that is The Castle of Otranto
One reader on her attempt to read all of Shakespeare's works in 2017. All of them. Yes, even that one.
A look at the opening paragraphs of Shirley Jackson's books, to commemorate her 100th birthday.
Rioters pay tribute to the great Shirley Jackson.
A Dickens scholar explains the meaning behind the names in Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL
