American Literature

Herman Melville likely saw the panorama “Whaling Voyage,” which records the sinking of the whaler Essex, while staying in Boston in 1849.

Double identity, present in both Marvel's Black Panther and in the critical race theory of double-consciousness, enables black American viewers to see their two identities played out on screen.

Journalist, physician, and committed black nationalist Martin Delany took Frederick Douglass to task over, among other things, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

A tongue in cheek comparison between the British fictional sleuth and the American Transcendentalist author, just because.

The history of the wedding dress is shorter than the history of weddings, and even shorter still than the history of marriage.

Bob Dylan delivered his Nobel Prize lecture on June 4, just days before a deadline that would have ...

Love poems by Pablo Neruda, Joyce Carol Oates, Kenneth Koch, Willie Perdomo, Robert Penn Warren, Edith Wharton, and more.

Catfishing, imposters, and mistaken identity are par for the course in the internet age. But it turns out ...

Today is Dorothy Parker's birthday, so you should probably have a martini or two in celebration. 

Ossian once rivaled Homer in the Western literary canon. Whatever happened to him?