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For fans of classic books, half of the fun in consuming great stories is imagining what each character looks like in your own mind. When the eventual big-screen adaption rolls around, comparing ...

You know what drives me crazy? When everyone agrees on something in literature that's just plain wrong. We've all heard the same interpretations of classic characters repeated so many times they feel ...

The greatest pieces of literature would be nothing without their characters. This could be regarded as an obvious statement, of course stories cannot be made without the people — and sometimes animals ...

LOWER SALEM – The Wicked Witch of the West, Glenda the Good Witch and Dorothy put aside their differences Thursday evening and settled in at Salem-Liberty Elementary School to hear “One Hundred and ...

Three recent science fiction and fantasy releases take readers to hell on Earth, the land of the living dead and an alternate England where the Crimean War is still going on in 1985. John Shirley, ...

For a lot of us, college is the first time we experience the melting pot that is the United States. We’ve run away from our podunk towns and East Nowheres to the big city, a different city — maybe ...

The world may be completely swoony over The Avengers and the X-Men now, but, for most of us, our first real superheroes came in the form of Tom Sawyers and Pippi Longstalkings. Tom's bold ...