The complete online text of Moon-Face by Jack London.

American author and advocate of socialism Jack London (1876-1916) wrote popular adventure stories and social tracts based on unusual personal experiences. At their best, his works are powerful and moving narratives. Jack London, in full John Griffith Lon...

Jack London has been recognized as one of the most dynamic figures in American literature. Sailor, hobo, Klondike argonaut, social crusader, war correspondent, scientific farmer, self-made millionaire, global traveler, and adventurer, London captured the...

"No literary historian but sooner or later must reckon with Jack London," Fred Lewis Pattee asserts in The Development of the American Short Story (1923), for "he represented more than an individual: he was the product of a literary condition in America....

Shirley Lim's literary preoccupations are defined - if not consumed - by her Asian-American female identity, as her poetry, criticism, and now her memoir bear witness. Among the White Moon Faces is her self-confessed attempt to define her "place" in the world, so...

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Each night, when Alison Pill slips into the lead role of Theresa Rebeck’s new Broadway play, Mauritius, she must endure what can only be described as a theatrical gauntlet. She gets tossed about the stage like a three-ounce rag doll. She has to hold her...

Everything old is new again. On stage and screen, the new season is looking like an old season, without a shred of originality in sight. While Broadway gears up for yet another Little Women with songs, theater sages are hitching, hiking and grifting their way...