It’s not a tradition that’s much followed today, but in the Victorian era, gathering around the fireplace on Christmas Eve to tell ghost stories was one of the mainstays of the holiday period. How the ...

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Bruce Handy, in his 2017 book about children’s literature, “Wild Things,” confesses that he always imagined the writer Margaret Wise Brown to be a dowdy old lady “with an ample lap”—just like the ...

I When the gloom of wintertide was deepest, when snow and ice fettered the earth, and a frost-wind came shoreward from the ...

Benson’s mother was Mary Sidgwick, whose brother Henry was a founding member and first president of the Society for Psychical ...

From OG A24 horror The VVitch to eat-the-rich drama The Menu, Taylor-Joy has played some of the most iconic final girls of ...

Mr. Morella’s adaptation stands out among others for its abundant use of language from Dicken’s revered novella. The use of Dickens’ actual words helps give authentic Victorian ambience to the ...

This year, the Trump administration took several federal actions with widespread implications for the nation’s English learners, a fast-growing student population whose education often hinges on ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift I love giving books as presents. I rarely give anything else. I ...