Literature

Today in history for Poetry Month: Shakespeare on Robben Island

April 23, 2015 By Gene Gordon

After he became president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela continued to read, to quote and to love William Shakespeare.

Today in history: John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” is published

April 14, 2015 By Special to People’s World

Millions who have never read the book have seen the film version starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford.

“Dancer in the Revolution”: Memoir of Stretch Johnson, Harlem communist

February 12, 2015 By Tony Pecinovsky

History is a curious thing, full of drama, intrigue, plot twists, misadventures. Howard "Stretch" Johnson's memoir is similarly curious.

It’s political: Library cards

June 25, 2014 By Kelly Sinclair

Here's a simple way for you to help spread the ideas of an author you respect, and be a political activist at the same time: use your library card.

Gabo lives

April 21, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Novelist Gabriel García Márquez died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City. His 1967 novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" gained him the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982.