The Best Classic Books to Have on Your Bookshelf
From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...
The Greatest Film Adaptations of 19th-Century Literary Classics
Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...
Did a Fictional 1800s Book Series About 'Baron Trump' Predict Donald Trump's Presidency? Some People Sure Think So
People are drawing parallels between President Donald Trump and a 19-century children’s book series about a wealthy time ...
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How a Piece of 19th Century Fiction, a Disenchanting Love, the Circus, and More Inspired Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is?”
Remembering Peggy Lee's version of "Is That All There Is?" Mike Stoller said: "Peggy's is really the essential version of ...
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5 New Books We Recommend This Week
A thriller, a dystopia, a Gothic novel about a family curse: Genre lovers have options in this week’s recommended books ... a true-crime history of the 19th-century murder trial that may ...
Chris Hayes and Nicholas Carr on how we lost our focus
Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and “Superbloom” by Carr, argue that our capacity for attention and connection has ...
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UW English Professor’s Book Makes Most Anticipated Books of 2025 List
Arielle Zibrak, a professor of English at the University of Wyoming, edited a volume of short stories by American women ...
Netflix Orders “Little House on the Prairie” Reboot More Than 40 Years After Original Series
More than 40 years since the original series concluded after nine seasons in 1983, Netflix has greenlit a reboot of the 19th ...
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Fully Booked // Are Classics Worth Reading?
In this edition of Fully Booked, staff writer Evin Verbrugge writes about whether or not she thinks people should read ...
Women have finally achieved parity on VCE English reading lists, but there are fewer classics
Analysing over 25 years of VCE lists revealed a rising proportion of works addressing social justice, identity, postcolonial perspectives and environmental themes.