What are some movies or novels that feature gifted individuals isolated from or misunderstood by society?

What are some evocative symbolic objects and motifs in literature and movies/TV?

Roberto Bolaño: What are some things I might not know about “By Night in Chile”?

Irish Literature: Which Maeve Binchy novel is a good choice to read first?

When, if ever, is a landmark literary work rendered obsolete?

How did Jane Austen enter our literary canon?

Who are some of the most intelligent characters in literary history?

Is Oprah’s Book Club a fundamentally reactionary middlebrow movement trying to coöpt the avant-garde?

Literary Fiction: Can you suggest some new writers for my reading list?  I’m fond of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck and Updike.

Are there any well-regarded, epic-length novels written by female authors (besides Ayn Rand)?

What are typical revenue shares for authors of novels or stage plays, and how are they calculated?

Is The Hunger Games the modern equivalent of Brave New World or Nineteen Eighty-Four?

Is it possible for someone to have super genius cognizance like Sherlock Holmes?

What is the best quotation from fiction?

Literary Fiction: Is there a name for the style of writing such as Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad or Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette, where author combines the narrative with e-mail exchange, charts, and other different ...

Why does literature portray business as bad or evil?

Why is Witold Gombrowicz so important in 20th Century literature?

What is the difference between anthropomorphism and personification?

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884 book): Would Tom Sawyer have tried to free Jim if Jim hadn’t already been legally freed?

Is Ayn Rand considered a feminist?