I like to think Prince William and Kate Middleton named their daughter Charlotte after everyone's favorite children's book spider from Charlotte's Web, because literary character baby names are the ...

The world may be completely swoony over The Avengers and the X-Men now, but, for most of us, our first real superheroes came in the form of Tom Sawyers and Pippi Longstalkings. Tom's bold ...

The Composites Tumblr reveals what police sketches of famous literary characters would look like if the artist only had the books to go on. The Composites is a Tumblr that provides police sketch-style ...

“As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes…a thick cable of twisted dark hair ...

While musicians clearly have a lot of affection for fictionalized characters, they don’t appear as often in song because novels are so complex relative to a four-minute pop song. There’s certainly ...

Researchers in China have developed a framework to improve large language models’ ability to simulate human-like personalities by basing them on detailed literary characters. Their study found that ...

Characters in books don't play very many video games, do they? The classic literary figures get a pass because they were conceived decades or centuries before computers were invented - the authors can ...

Signing on to portray a character based on a bestselling book seems like it could easily be a double-edged sword. If it takes off, playing a popular character can send an actor into a whole new ...