Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: these are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). As the United States’ first ...

In many high schools across the country, there is a lack of representation of Asian voices in classroom literature. Not only in character storylines, but also among the authors selected. “I have Asian ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. One doesn’t need to follow the ...

Discover seven essential American authors whose works have left their mark on the world of literature through their depth, originality and narrative power. American literature is filled with women who ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Octavia E. Butler, Homer: Los Angeles teachers share what they are teaching in today's high school ...

The cover of "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration" and one of the editors Frank Abe. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Kayla Isomura) The new collection "The Literature of Japanese ...

The past year has seen the publication of numerous brilliant works of fiction by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors, yet there are so many narratives still to be explored. There are 48 ...

When American Authors first brought an acoustic demo of a track called “Best I Can” to their label, Island Records, they had no idea the track would eventually end up in the hands of Norwegian ...