But high-brow literature also relies on an ideology of personal cultivation and betterment that looks a lot like self-help. MacDonald's books and essays, for example, teach readers how to separate ...

The trouble is, few contemporary readers take a long view of literary genre. All of the books we label “genre fiction” today are novels or short stories, essentially modern fictional forms.

Elizabeth Conte loves 19th century literature. There’s just something about it, Conte said in a recent interview. Works of that time had a certain drama, romance and a literary flair that she ...

The theological frameworks transmitted in literary genres say things about the purpose of human life, about what the ideal human life is, and about how human beings can flourish or wither. It’s ...

Last Thursday, September 13, 2012, Le Poisson Rouge hosted a dynamic, cross-genre reading series called Literary Death Match at 7 P.M. The reading, called an “episode” by the series’ creator ...