These literary legends never lived to see their books become global sensations.

The Zhivago Affair: the Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book Peter Finn and Petra Couvée Pantheon, 368pp, $26.95 The Most Dangerous Book: the Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses Kevin ...

Gertrude Stein is an American writer who made her home in Paris, France. Her first book was published in 1909 but her autobiography, titled The Autobiography of Alice ...

Through its form, the device depicts the prevailing moods of key literary eras: Renaissance, Neoclassical, Romantic, Modern, ...

Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature is given to "the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction," according to Alfred Nobel's will. The ...

John McMurtrie introduces Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels Across The World of Literature with the famous Robert Frost quote: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the road less ...

Here are 20 of Boston’s most significant literary sites, including pubs, hotels, and restaurants that were once the haunts of important literary figures. Boston, a city steeped in a rich literary ...