Average ratings on Goodreads can hide both literary classics and highly divided reading experiences—and can therefore be a misleading measure of literary value. You may have tried it yourself: to ...

(Medical Xpress)—The inside of an MRI machine might not seem like the best place to cozy up and concentrate on a good novel, but a team of researchers at Stanford are asking readers to do just that.

In the Jan. 16 opinion essay “Stop Assigning Boring Books in English Class,” Superintendent Erich May declares that high schools ought to “stop assigning the wrong books” so that teens will enjoy ...

Like rabid mongrels in a village market place, the so called ‘Literary Scholars’ who dot our writing landscape like outbreaks of Bubonic Plague are at it again (in all the recent literary discourses ...

In “The Research Bust” (The Chronicle Review, December 9, 2011), Mark Bauerlein argues that literary studies has reached a saturation point, the cascade of research having overwhelmed scholars’ ...