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Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America (University of Georgia Pr
Between 1911 and 1912, Prague was home to Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka, two of the twentieth-cent
Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500 (Cornell U
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white
Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is
Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set
Imagine growing up between Sacramento, California and Logar, Afghanistan; you hear stories about war
In Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance (Knopf, 2024) by Dr. Ramie Targoff, d
In both modern fiction and the biblical texts of 1 Samuel 13-2 Samuel 1, the character of Jonathan s
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Pre
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar langua
In If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi (Columbia UP, 2024), Tyler W. Williams
Vaughn Scribner joins Jana Byars on the occasion of the paperback edition of Merpeople: A Human Hist
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh an
Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor Guido Ruggiero (University of
In this episode of High Theory, Esther Gabara talks with us about Non-Literary Fiction, that is, wor
I spoke with Hannah Gabel, Literary Director of the Texas Book Festival. The Festival first began in
What happens when a novelist wants “nonsense and joy” but his characters are destined for a Central
The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater (Open Book, 2024) p
On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) is a critique of o
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