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 ...

Republican representative Nancy Mace strutted around Capitol Hill on Tuesday wearing a shirt emblazoned with a large red A, attempting to reference “The Scarlet Letter” after she voted to oust ...

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 ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” is fiction, but based on fact. In Puritan Massachusetts, punishment by Capital Letter Shaming was used for a variety of offenses. Mary Mendame was ...

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 ...