The greatest pieces of literature would be nothing without their characters. This could be regarded as an obvious statement, of course stories cannot be made without the people — and sometimes animals ...

For nearly seventy years, The Kenyon Review has been the world's best known and most honored literary magazine in the English-speaking world. The Kenyon Review's editorial focus is to identify ...

From the wise-cracking sidekick to the wily trickster, the just-out-of-reach love interest to the grizzled mentor, archetypal characters fit into age-old storytelling patterns. The most popular ...