Topic: literature

A person reading a novel with a tattered American flag and President Donald Trump displayed in the background (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / FreshSplash / Rebecca Noble / imagedepotpro)

When a president goes rogue — in fiction

David King Dunaway
A performance of the "Oedipus" plays by Sophocles, 1996. (Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

How theater can save democracy

Bernd Reiter
A smartphone displaying the US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's new album "The Tortured Poets Department" on Spotify. (AFP via Getty Images)

Taylor Swift and the tortured poet’s "I"

Erin Keane
Chinese food (Getty Images/twomeows)

The origins of Chinese-American foods

Michael La Corte
Red, White & Royal Blue (Amazon Studios)

The books in "Red, White & Royal Blue"

Joy Saha
Writer Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on November 16, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by (Jim Spellman/WireImage/Getty Images)

Cormac McCarthy didn't write Westerns

Nick Hilden
Robot sitting on a bunch of books, reading (Getty Images/Kirillm)

Stop using AI to pitch stories

Alison Stine
The Witches, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and Matilda (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/HBO Max)

Bait and switch censorship of Roald Dahl

Alison Stine
J.K Rowling attends the UK Premiere of "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald" at Cineworld Leicester Square on November 13, 2018 in London, England. (Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

JK Rowling on her legacy: "I'll be dead"

Alison Stine
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in "You." (Courtesy of Netflix)

Grading Joe from "You" as a professor

Alison Stine
Harry Melling as Edgar Allen Poe in "The Pale Blue Eye" (Scott Garfield/Netflix)

Poe, darling of the misunderstood

Scott Peeples - The Conversation
Most Anticipated Books of 2023 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Random House/Riverhead/Pantheon/Viking/Flatiron Books/Ecco/Soft Skull Press)

22 highly anticipated books for 2023

Alison Stine, Hanh Nguyen
The Penguin logo is visible on the spines of books displayed on a shelf (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Authors celebrate antitrust case

Alison Stine
Singer Fiona Apple in an armor suit poses on a crowded New York subway, November, 1997 in New York. (Joe McNally/Getty Images)

Fiona Apple, "Rings" warrior woman

Alison Stine
Copies of "The Catcher in the Rye" by author J.D. Salinger at a bookstore in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Will high school "classics" be replaced?

Andrew Newman - The Conversation
US poet Ada Limon (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Meet Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate

Amy Cannon - The Conversation
Books on shelves in the stacks at the Reading Public Library. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

Authors enter the library e-book fight

Alison Stine
Beagle in forest (Johner Images / Getty Images)

Silas House on climate dystopia and dogs

Alison Stine
English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) ponders his next work (Stock Montage/Getty Images)

Debunking 5 myths about Shakespeare

Jonathan Culpeper, Mathew Gillings - The Conversation
Ted Sutherland as Nick and Sadie Sink as Ziggy in "Fear Street Part 2: 1978" (Netflix)

R.L. Stine: Fear Street "loosened me up"

Alison Stine
Salman Rushdie (David Levenson/Getty Images)

Salman Rushdie and a history of offense

Alison Stine
Composition with books on the table (Getty Images/FabrikaCr)

Reading, empathy & Austen adaptations

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot in "Persuasion" (Nick Wall/Netflix)

5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music

Gillian Dooley - The Conversation
An anti-abortion picket, with protestors holding placards reading 'Abortion Kills', 'Celebrate Life', 'Abortion is Murder,' 'Stop Killing Babies' and 'Baird: What's the Body Count at Your Abortion Mill Now?', with a sign for a Mobil petrol station in the background, picket a birth control lecture by reproductive rights advocate Bill Baird, United States, 13th August 1971. (Peter L Gould/FPG/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The crafted "evil abortionist" archetype

Margaret Jay Jessee - The Conversation
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