Harper Lee's unexpected new novel offers an unexpected and startling take on an American literary saint, Atticus Finch. "Go Set a Watchman" is set in the 1950s, 20 years after Lee's celebrated "To ...

The character of Atticus Finch is so beloved that when Richard Thomas walked on stage last night, he was met with applause for the opening night of "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the Walton Arts Center.

Let me play devil’s advocate for a moment: Why should the revelations in “Go Set a Watchman”-- most notably, its portrait of Atticus Finch as ... asking is how the character evolved in ...

coalesced around the book’s revelation that Atticus Finch, one of the most beloved characters in American literature, is a creature of his own time, rather than of ours — in other words ...

Small-town Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch from Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of the most recognizable characters in American literature. In the recent Broadway update of the ...

What made the earth (almost literally) shake, was the reveal that in “Go Set a Watchman,” set 20 years after TKAM, Atticus Finch, one of the most beloved characters of American fiction ...

“Now that Atticus Finch has been removed from that pedestal of this benevolent, messianic character, people seem to be reacting as if they’ve been told, ‘No, Virginia, there is no Santa ...

Chances are the fictional character from the 1970s TV show “The Waltons” would have turned out a lot like Atticus Finch, the fictional character from the 1960 novel and 1962 movie “To Kill a ...