Homer’s “Odyssey” is back in the headlines with this summer’s movie production, but how many other ancient works do you recognize on the big screen?

A group of artists gathered at a hotel on the Côte d’Azur in 1937. A new book by Anna Thomasson captures the art and escapades the holiday inspired.

Test your knowledge of novels, essays and poems that made insightful observations.

After creative differences led him to step away from the characters that made him famous decades ago, John Byrne calls “Elsewhen” his swan song. He’s not going quietly.

Try this short quiz on Manhattan’s influential “vicious circle” of 20th-century literary wits.

Try this short quiz on five of the globe’s renowned repositories of human learning.

Books about pivotal moments in America’s past are often transformed into films or television shows. Try this quiz to see if you can identify these five adaptations.

In her new history, “Cocked and Boozy,” Brooke Barbier illuminates the pervasive role that alcohol played throughout the colonial era.

Some bits of dialogue or description can stick with you long after you’ve finished reading. Try this short quiz to see how many jog your memory.

Try this short quiz on written works that were persuasive enough to influence American life and law.

Home is where the heart is — and sometimes where writers set their books. Try this quiz to see how many locations you recognize.

Try this short quiz to see how many titles you (or your children) can recall.

In “The Wonderful World That Almost Was,” Andrew Durbin reconstructs the coterie that surrounded the artist-lovers Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.

Try this quick trivia challenge and celebrate the world of poetry.

Film adaptations often vary from their original source material, and this short quiz challenges you to identify certain words on the screen that were not in the novel.

Try this short quiz on memorably snarky retorts and observations from five literary works.

Try this short quiz to see how many titles and people you can pair up from five classic books.

Try this short quiz on the last stop for five popular writers.

Eddie Murphy, Snoop Dogg and Bill Clinton (naturally) show up in his gossipy new memoir. He isn’t very sentimental.