Centuries apart, Hester Prynne's public shaming in Puritan Boston and tech CEO Andy Byron's recent social media downfall ...

For “In the Blood,” Parks reimagines Hester Prynne as an inner-city woman struggling to make ends meet as she raises her five children, each the product of a different, long-gone father.

The protagonist, Hester Prynne, has a child out of wedlock and is ostracized from town, forced to wear an embroidered red “A” on her dress for “adulterer. ...

Just shy of 175 years ago, Hester Prynne secured a primo spot in literary history. Arguably, thanks to school curricula and films such as Easy A, Hester remains a familiar name. In The Scarlet Letter, ...

Set in Salem, Massachusetts, in the early 1800s, “Hester” by Laurie Lico Albanese imagines the inspiration behind Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” “Hester” is told from ...

"Bride of Silence" is billed as the first Vietnamese movie to champion a feminist p.o.v. Doan Minh Phuong and Doan Thanh Nghia take full advantage of lush rural locations, and showcase the beauty ...