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Fairfield University’s Inspired Writers Series hosted a discussion on the evening of Nov. 30, featuring literary critics Ryan Ruby and Becca Rothfeld. Phil Klay, a Fairfield University professor and host of...

“God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!” “The Fire Next Time,” by James Baldwin, was published in 1963 and comprises two essays. The first essay is a letter Baldwin...

When Ernest Hemingway was being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, only one of his novels was directly praised by the Swedish Academy: “The Old Man and the Sea”. The myth of Hemingway, along...

Before beginning “Paradise Lost,” by John Milton, the reader already knows the ending and all the preceding events. “Paradise Lost” in a way, is a poem that nobody should feel a desire to read, much...

According to the Pew Research Center, in 2018 around a quarter of American adults reported that they had not read a whole, or part of, a book in the last year. This statistic points to a lack of engaged adult...

Dante Alighieri, one of the giants of medieval literature and greatest Italian poets of all time, is still studied at length in colleges all over the world, despite the fact that his poetry was written...