While I was enduring a bout with COVID back in February, I found an old copy of The Great Gatsby on the bookshelf of my basement quarantine refuge and read it again for the first time in many years.

We continue our series In Character, where we ask listeners to submit personal essays on their favorite fictional characters. Today, it's Jack Bauer from the TV series 24. We've also asked you to ...

<Gendou sets down his ever-present paper and cup of tea><P>Ok, in this spirit of this thread and this thread, I present:<BR>The (Perpetual) Favorite Fictional Character thread.<P>Here, we want to know ...

The worldwide pandemic has threatened many of the businesses you rely on every day, but don’t let it take away your source for local news. Now more than ever, we need your help to ensure nothing but ...

In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is active when thinking about others, a new study found. In lonely ...

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Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide Although I have been a long-time fan of the Irish writer William Trevor, it was only in 2016 – amid the ...