These days, we tend to think about The Scarlet Letter in relation to high school students struggling with their English papers, but we didn’t always see the book that way. When Nathaniel ...

More Win McNamee/Getty The South Carolina Republican's attire to the forum appears to be a nod to Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter, in which the main character ...

Alice Hoffman’s new novel, “The Invisible Hour,” is about a young woman who runs away from a cult, discovers “The Scarlet Letter” in a public library, travels back in time almost 200 ...

All of these events are highly reminiscent of the punishment inflicted upon Hester Prynne in Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” That novel was first published almost two centuries ago ...

These days, we tend to think about The Scarlet Letter in relation to high school students struggling with their English papers, but we didn’t always see the book that way. When Nathaniel ...