I love classics, and I love modern fiction, so it’s no surprise that I’m obsessed with modern retellings of classic novels. After all, many classics are classics because they contain themes that still ...

Sometimes a story is just so dang good, it bears repeating. From James Joyce’s Ulysses to Bridget Jones’s Diary, you’ve probably read a book that was just a modern retelling of a well-established ...

In 2015, Penguin Random House launched the Hogarth Shakespeare Project, a series of retellings each based on the premise of a Shakespeare play set in the modern day. A modern author was commissioned ...

The Roustabouts Theatre Company presents a comic retelling of a classic romance WITHERING HEIGHTS, based on "Withering Heights" by Emily Bronte, written and performed by Phil Johnson and Omri Schein ...

A few weeks ago, my daughter and I were watching the movie "Pride & Prejudice and Zombies," and she turned to me and said, "I know this story." She is 12. There was no way she read Jane Austen. But ...