Flannery O'Connor employed grotesqueness and violence in her stories to illustrate the workings of grace on her characters.

We've gathered up some of our favorite literary takes on Christmas.

While fact-checking his critically acclaimed novel about an enigmatic soprano of the Paris Opera , Chee happened upon a piece of information on JSTOR he could not ignore.

An early story from 2016 Pultizer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Shawna Yang Ryan's "Green Island," explores the 2-28 massacre, in which tens of thousands of Taiwanese were killed by Kuomintang troops in 1947. 

Elizabeth McKenzie's "The Portable Veblen" concerns a character named Veblen, a woman who feels keenly the ideas of the great economist.  

Is To Kill a Mockingbird a literary juggernaut or a failed book?

In Mira Ptacin's, Poor Your Soul, the question is: How does one grieve a baby that never was? These resources may help us know. 

Providing some historical context to Han King's The Vegetarian. 

Two short stories by Deborah Eisenberg.