“I look for the subjective pulse of the author,” says the novelist, hailing Hamsun while sensing “cynicism” in Nabokov. “A Wooded Shore” is his 18th book. Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by In an ...

The Midnight Sun Randonnée is a self-supported audax with a 90-hour time limit. It takes place over the summer solstice, ...

Updike was not a hoarder the way some of the characters in his novels are (in Rabbit, Run, the Angstrom apartment is a “continual crisscrossing mess”). But he was still a collector of sorts, always in ...

The stacks at Harvard’s Widener Library are, I have come to believe, the best place to hide if you want to spend an afternoon reading uninterrupted but not alone. Widener has that rare charm conferred ...

From Dostoevsky’s White Nights to Camus’ The Stranger, here are 21 short classic novels that you can finish in a day.

These short classic novels contain themes such as longing and existentialism that resonate with readers even today.

Every culture has its own unique holidays and traditions, but one of the most interesting cultural holidays is St Knut’s Day. St Knut’s Day, also known as the Feast of St Knut, is a traditional ...