College English is the professional journal for the college scholar-teacher. CE publishes articles about literature, rhetoric-composition, critical theory, creative writing theory and pedagogy, ...

Dickens began his autobiography in 1847, when he was only 35, but abandoned it and, overcome with memories of his deprivations, a few years later was inspired to write the autobiographical David ...

Much has been written about the therapeutic effects of reading. Carmen Martin Gaite, for example, expressed her views on the subject in 1989. “Reading provides insight into a secret world that ...

In her new novel, “An Autobiography of Skin,” Lakiesha Carr tells the stories of three contemporary Black women, each struggling with different manifestations of trauma. By Ladee Hubbard When you ...

“Naturally,” Morrissey writes in the most Morrissey of ways in the first paragraph of his autobiography, “my birth almost kills my mother, for my head is too big…” The opening paragraph that contains ...

With Memorials of the Men and Events of his Time. Boston : Ticknor & Fields. 12mo. pp. 480. Who was he ? and what was he like ? — Sir Walter Scott answered these interrogatories more than thirty years ...

Matt Ridley begins his book with a simple truth. “The human genome—the complete set of human genes—comes packaged in twenty-three separate pairs of chromosomes.” We all know that. Nonetheless, Ridley ...