In the ingenious new literary mystery "The Dante Club," someone with intimate knowledge of "The Divine Comedy" appears to be staging murders that mirror the punishments of Dante's "Inferno".
One of our guests was Ella Berthould, the co-author of The Novel Cure, an ingenious set of literary diagnoses for ailments.
The journalist characterized both the investigation and the film as ingenious ploys to keep literary giants in the news on their inexorably recurring anniversaries.
In her ingenious study "Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind" (1995), Patricia Meyer Spacks describes it as a luxury — and a peril — born of the Industrial Revolution, reflecting the rise of individualism, leisure (especially female leisure) and the idea of happiness as a right and a daunting personal responsibility.
In the Spanish literary classic, "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha," the protagonist Don Quixote was made iconic for 'tilting at windmills' i.e. attacking imaginary enemies.
In them, Ovid's treatment of his literary sources is particularly ingenious; the correspondence of Paris and Helen is one of antiquity's minor masterpieces.
Barbara Hui, an enterprising literary scholar, shares an ingenious digital map showing not only the places Sebald visited on his "Rings of Saturn" walk, but also the places he imagined, thought about or mentioned at each spot.
In this, he is reminiscent of Edward Fitzgerald, a poet whose own verse is largely forgotten, but who lives in literary memory as the ingenious translator of Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát.
Here's an ingenious way to show off your favorite literary works.
The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin 320pp, Faber, £17.99 Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it.
