All of these are effective enough jabs at the American university system, although The Chair pulls its punches to allow for an upbeat and optimistic ending. Such a conclusion can also be found across ...

Here is a fun literary experiment: substitute the words ill or illness in Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill” (1930) with the words hung-over and hangover. It works, right? “Hangover is the great ...

Kingsley Amis was a prominent British novelist, poet, critic, and satirist best known for his debut novel, Lucky Jim, a seminal work of postwar comic fiction that helped define the so-called "Angry ...

For this week's column, I sat down with English Literature Professor Robert May to discuss English 20th-century writer Kingsley Amis’ debut novel, Lucky Jim (1954). The story centers around a young ...

Talk about one fat Englishman. This must be the most substantial single-volume collection of letters in publishing history. Not since the glory days of The Stand or even The Rise and Fall of the Third ...