Isak Dinesen was the pseudonym used by the Danish author Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962). Her stories place her among Denmark's greatest authors. Isak Dinesen was born on April 17, 1885, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, adventurer, and autho...

Karen Blixen is the most widely recognized figure in twentieth-century Danish letters, eliciting greater critical and popular attention than any other Danish writer of this century. The scholarly studies dealing with her life and works number well over f...

"THIS IS NOT a story to pass on," declares Toni Morrison with bitter irony in her celebrated work Beloved, a novel that exposes the destructiveness of an untold past. Morrison is not alone in her determination to preserve and tell the past. Many American...

In Hasidism, story and anecdote are a way of constructing religious faith. They give language to the ineffable, and order to the disarray of life. Pearl Abraham's third novel, "The Seventh Beggar," is about stories, but it reveals their inability to finally resolve the...