literature

Everything you need to know to read "The Canterbury Tales"

Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe?

Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

What really happened to the Library of Alexandria?

The Cambodian myth of lightning thunder and rain

Why should you read "The Handmaid's Tale"?

The myth of King Midas and his golden touch

The myth of Thor's journey to the land of giants

The myth of Arachne

The myth of Oisín and the land of eternal youth

The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice

Why should you read Charles Dickens?

Why is Herodotus called "The Father of History"?

How fiction can help us better understand our reality

The myth of Prometheus

The inspiring truth in fiction

Why should you read "Macbeth"?

How to make your writing suspenseful

Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"?

Why should you read Virgil's "Aeneid"?

Why should you read Virginia Woolf?

The myth of Cupid and Psyche

The philosophy of Stoicism

The world's most mysterious book

A brief history of goths

Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"?

How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire?

What makes a poem … a poem?

The myth of Icarus and Daedalus

Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" have a hidden message?

Everything you need to know to read "Frankenstein"

Everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey"

What's the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf?

How to recognize a dystopia

Why women should tell the stories of humanity

Plato's best (and worst) ideas