Forget the modern-day hero. Odysseus is one for the ages.

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novella about this well, old man out on the sea.

I should have known it was going to be awful based on how lame the title was. "California Summer." Have you ever heard anything so generic?

Small town with big, big secrets.

Why is that we like to cry during the Christmas season? I just finished reading a story that literally made me bawl. Maus, winner of the...