Literary Criticism

This CliffsNotes study guide on John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men supplements the original...

This CliffsNotes study guide on George Orwell's 1984 supplements the original literary wo...

Readings and conversation with Kurt Andersen, Libba Bray, Stephen Colbert, Oskar Eustis, ...

After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Matt Burriesci set out to write a book a...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Zusak's The Book Thief supplements the original literary w...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun supplements the o...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Hinton's The Outsiders supplements the original literary w...

Chet and Bernie—everybody’s favorite human-canine detective team—are as...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Hosseini's The Kite Runner supplements the original litera...

This CliffsNotes study guide on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman supplements the origi...

A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’...

Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, an...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Shaffer and Barrows' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel...

Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic, c...

Charles Kuralt's classic bestseller is now on audio!On The Road With Charles KuraltFeatur...

“If American conscience were only half alive, if the American church and clergy wer...

An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greates...

Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. ...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea supplements the...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest supplements the or...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo supplements the ...

Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be he...

This CliffsNotes study guide on Arthur Miller's The Curucible supplements the original li...

This CliffsNotes study guide on Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel's Night supplements the original li...

The author of the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus presents ...

This CliffsNotes study guide on George Orwell's Animal Farm supplements the original lite...

BUILDING BRIDGES Stephen King Live at the National Book Awards Each Autumn, in conjuncti...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Krakauer's Into the Wild supplements the original literary...

Featuring The Bennett Family And An All-Star CastWilliam J. Bennett, John, Joseph and Ela...

In Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big dat...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World supplements the original l...

Enjoy this wonderfully narrated audio book of a collection of Rumi's most beloved poetry....

Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte, published under the pen name "Cu...

Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents ...

Marilynne Robinson discusses and reads from her book Gilead with James Wood.

Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude) joins Judith Freeman and ...

The author of Bel Canto and Truth & Beauty talks with Jane Hamilton (A Map of the World; ...

A Gentleman in Moscow recounts the story of Count Alexander Rostov. In 1922, on the heels...

Do you want to know what the best way to handle temper tantrums is? Are you interested in...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Coehlo's The Alchemist supplements the original literary w...

Peek into the mesmerizing imagination of C. S. Lewis with the world's leading authority o...

From acclaimed classicist Gregory Carlson, discover new insights into one of the greatest...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Stockett's The Help supplements the original literary work...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl supplements ...

Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the macabre. He wrote horror stories, mysteries, poems, f...

Anyone who has ever loved a book will relish this playful, yet deeply literate collection...

Uncover the theories behind the Master of Horror's macabre tales: It, The Shining, Carrie...

From the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of Wil...

Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term i...

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have s...