The Sinners All Bow” by Kate Winkler Dawson is a true crime book that investigates a murder in 1832 that possibly was the ...

In the world of true crime, Fall River, Mass. is known for Lizzie Borden, but another murder 60 years earlier captivated New ...

Did Nathaniel Hawthorne base “The Scarlet Letter” on the real-life story of the Rev. Ephraim Avery and his young congregant Sarah Maria Cornell, whose gruesome death in 1832 Massachusetts ...

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

Nathaniel Hawthorne told a sympathetic story about his minister in The Scarlet Letter, one of mercy and redemption. But there's little redemption for Ephraim Avery in Kate Winkler Dawson's book ...

Like Cornell, Hester Prynne of Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” (1850) suffered as the result of a sexual entanglement with a minister. At its best, “The Sinners All Bow” presents a ...

In 2023, Mace wore a shirt with the letter “A” on it after voting to oust Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California. The shirt was a reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet ...

“But I can say the same thing about The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Another fabulous book, and nobody's reading that book anymore. It’s passé, and I think even [Gabriel] García ...

and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Scarlet Letter," published in 1850. Research supports that teens often find these books unrelatable and difficult to read, and teens need more autonomy and choice ...