Recently I learned that the character, Mona Simpson, of the famed Simpsons television show, was named after the real-life author. She was...

“The Yellow Wallpaper” written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a slow, brilliant descent into madness, an early feminist triumph...

In my effort to celebrate the short story form, I have come across a piece I think especially relevant for today. It strikes me that “The...

It may be as simple as speaking up. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” published by The New Yorker in 1948, no one spoke up. The story...