How Iowa City earned its designation as a UNESCO City of Literature, the first in the Americas and third ever overall.
If you'd like to improve your reading while retaining comprehension, these classes cover poetry, the classics, short stories, and more.
Authors have long been known for their pets. But why have so many authors, including Virginia Woolf, historically had pet monkeys?
What did Tolkien think of Shakespeare? What was his first job? What is T.C.B.S.? Find out in this collection of facts about J.R.R. Tolkien!
Thesauri have been around since the 1500s, though they've changed a lot since then. Here is a brief history of the thesaurus then and now.
A look at the Federal Writers Project, a New Deal program that put some of America's most famous writers to work.
Reading can be harder during stressful times. But is there really such thing as "reader's block"? Here's what the neuroscience has to say.
Anne Brontë - an investigation into the Victorian novelist's life and how she became the forgotten Brontë sister.
Winnie-the-Pooh, which just entered the public domain, paved the way for modern literary character licensing. Here's what you need to know.
What's a book index and why does it matter? A look at indices, how they came to be, and the people who make them possible.
