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New Research Suggests Dr. Seuss Modeled the Lorax on This Real-Life Monkey
Facial recognition software refreshes the classic book’s message on conservation
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This Cold War-Era Publishing House Wanted To Share American Values With the World
Funded by the U.S. government, Franklin Publications was viewed as pushing imperialist propaganda
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The Adventurous Writer Who Brought Nancy Drew To Life
Mildred Wirt Benson helped invent the fictional teen sleuth who became a generational role model
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Geologist Andrew C. Scott reconstructs the sites of past blazes to look at our relationship with this elusive element
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The Case for Charles Dickens, the Science Communicator
A new exhibition dives into the Victorian novelist’s passion for science
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The Story of Josiah Henson, the Real Inspiration for ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’
Before there was the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a formerly enslaved African-American living in Canada wrote a memoir detailing his experience
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A Botanical Wonderland Resides in the World of Rare and Unusual Books
The Smithsonian’s librarian and antiquarian Leslie Overstreet time travels, sharing centuries of horticultural splendors
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How “Young Adult” Fiction Blossomed With Teenage Culture in America
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, books like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War told stories that dealt with complex emotions and social realities
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Analysis Breaks Down the Annoying “Poet Voice”
It’s not just you; poets also read their works aloud with long pauses, weird cadences and almost no emotion
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Scholar Finds New Isaac Bashevis Singer Story
“The Boarder,” which is published for the first time in the New Yorker, was discovered while going through the prominent writer’s vast archives
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How Charles Dickens Imagined a Westworld-like Robot Theme Park Back In 1838
The writer’s dystopia, populated by ‘automaton figures,’ was surprisingly modern
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Why Are We Always Searching For “A Quiet Place?”
Perhaps the real monster is not noise, but instead our own intolerance of unwanted sounds
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Britain’s Lake District Was Immortalized by Beatrix Potter, But Is Its Future in Peril?
Shepherds and ecologists are butting heads over what’s next for the beloved landscape
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Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Casket Rediscovered in Former Wine Cellar
Parishioners at St. Michael’s Church in Highgate hope to refurbish the crypt after identifying where exactly Coleridge’s final resting place was
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Watch: The First Trailer for ‘Mary Shelley’ Explores the Many Inspirations for ‘Frankenstein’
The biopic will follow Mary Wollstonecraft’s scandalous teenage romance with the older Percy Bysshe Shelley and the events that shaped her most famous book
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The First Novel for Children Taught Girls the Power of Reading
Nearly three centuries before heroines like Katniss and Meg Murray, Sarah Fielding published a book on the values of female education
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The Beloved Classic Novel “The Little Prince” Turns 75 Years Old
Written in wartime New York City, the children’s book brings out the small explorer in everyone
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The womanizer and Enlightenment polymath will be memorialized with an interactive museum in Venice opening April 2
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A Never-Ending Poem Grows in the Netherlands
De Letters van Utrecht is carved into the city streets and will continue indefinitely
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The dime novels and story papers entertained boys and launched a popular culture we still consume today
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