A Los Angeles Book Club Has Spent 28 Years Reading James Joyce’s ’Finnegans Wake’ and Still Doesn’t Understand It
James Joyce once famously declared, “The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.“ After 28 years, members of a Venice, California-based book club have come pretty close.
2023-12-01 05:27
10 Fascinating Facts About Louisa May Alcott
‘Little Women’ author Louisa May Alcott was also an early suffragette who fought against slavery and registered women to vote.
2023-11-17 22:57
Macron calls on Israel to stop killing Gaza's women and babies
In an exclusive BBC interview, the French president said a ceasefire would be in Israel's interest.
2023-11-11 05:22
Analysis-Three years after DirectBooks, US bond market still phoning it in
By Shankar Ramakrishnan Wall Street's three-year effort to modernize the way billions of dollars of new corporate bonds
2023-10-30 19:57
Don’t Know What to Read Next? This Comprehensive Book Map Can Help
TheLibraryMap organizes 100,000 book titles in a way that’s visually pleasing and easy to navigate.
2023-10-27 05:49
15 Books Whose Endings Were Changed for the Movie
You might be surprised to see how these movies end, even if you’ve read the books.
2023-10-27 02:25
12 Novels Inspired by Real Events
Novelists have used everything from real killers to newsworthy hostage situations to literal white whales to craft their fiction.
2023-10-24 06:26
11 Illuminating Facts About the Movie ‘Twilight’
It’s never a bad time to talk about the baseball scene in ‘Twilight.’
2023-10-24 02:27
A New Translation of ’The Iliad’ Is Bringing a Truer Ancient Greece to Modern Readers
This all-new translation of the Homer epic is six years in the making.
2023-10-09 22:15
11 Strange Facts About ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
The true facts surrounding the classic work are as mysterious and intriguing as the novel itself.
2023-10-06 03:46
The 10 Most Challenged Books of 2022
Parents and politicians are trying to pull books off shelves at a record-setting pace.
2023-10-06 02:20
10 Blood-Curdling Facts About ‘Dracula’
In true undead style, Dracula holds up well: He’s as creepy today as he was when Bram Stoker invented him in 1897.
2023-10-04 22:25