The pantheon of superpowered heroes in pop culture continues to grow as the world consumes hundreds of thousands of stories across all media forms. Comic books, video games and manga have introduced ...

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 know characters in fiction as well as we know many, and perhaps most, of the people around us. Yet fictional characters are often sketched remarkably lightly. In the more than 800 pages of ...