Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, I invited readers to send in the literary passages that most spoke to them and shaped them. Here’s Jen, with a passage ...

The Host is more or less Twilight with aliens... but it still has the odd moment of cosmic beauty: As I took another breath, I saw the three stars again. They were not calling to me; they were letting ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – While analytical, mathematically driven economists don't seem to have much in common with their abstract literary colleagues, a Purdue University professor's new book contends ...

Song, a high school senior living in Seoul, has never read a novel from cover to cover since middle school. Instead, she memorizes one-page summaries of modern and classical literature excerpts ...