At first glance one might surmise that the title of this article alludes to the characters in John Steinbeck's classic.

As the city's recreation director, Sheppard took an interest in the youth he encountered in his work.

A review of "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe.

A young boy sits at a desk, his chin propped on his fists. 

The multi-billion-dollar porn industry has its sights on the 'age of wonder,' desensitizing all in its path to truth, goodness and beauty.

Thanks to the adulterators of children's literature, the natural anticipations when approaching forgotten classics have been skewed.

When St. Nick drives his miniature sleigh full of toys drawn by eight tiny reindeer to the snowy housetop, and drops to the sooty hearth below, the paterfamilias is bidden to attend.

On the literary works of Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Until his death on October 14, Richard Wilbur had spent nearly half a century as America's greatest living poet.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet and moral philosopher, authored "The Divine Comedy".