Despite the piles of snow yet to melt outside my window, despite the third straight day of rain and overcast skies, it's official: I have spring fever. I packed away my winter boots, opened the blinds ...

Some villains are terrible through and through. These are the types of characters that you love to hate from the moment they flit across the page, leaving nothing but misery in their wake. Though some ...

Literature needs morally ambiguous characters to reflect real-life insecurities about right and wrong. Reading about gray characters is essential, as it can reveal darker attributes of the human ...