Ten Long Island school publications have been named first-place winners in a national literary contest — with Bay Shore High School winning a special designation.

Zora Neale Hurston's work didn't have the literary appreciation it now has until more than 15 years after her death in 1960.

Live” turns 50 this year, and a monumental biography of the man who created it attests to his enduring role as America’s ...

The Jack Reacher creator on struggling with retirement, why he’s fleeing Trump’s America – and not giving a damn what critics ...

The American Composers Orchestra and American Composers Forum revealed new joint initiative: The Sorel Award. One award will ...

A Punahou English teacher and a veteran literary scholar didn't live to see the promotion of their ambitious historical book.

Unexpected meetings lead to unusual revelations in Leslie Croxford’s new collection of short stories, writes David Tresilian ...

A century ago, Al Smith was a force in American politics—and the first Catholic to mount a major run at the White House. And ...

Harold Bloom’s latest book is a rhapsody to twelve giants of classic American literature who have ... Only a selection of our reviews and articles are free. Subscribers receive the monthly magazine ...

To start The New Yorker, Ross’ poker partner Fleischmann was willing to stake him US$25,000—roughly $450,000 in today’s ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: ...

Scorned by critics on its release, in 1999, Alan Rudolph’s Kurt Vonnegut adaptation now emerges as an inspired comic ...