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Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd, Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachuse
Rakugo is a live performance art that has penetrated the borders of Japan and continues to gain popu
Inspired by Virgil’s exquisitely ambivalent phrase “sunt lacrimae rerum” (there are tears of/for/in
In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000-mile American road tri
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne
The question of whether to acknowledge a text as a translation and thereby bring attention to the tr
If you are familiar with traditional Chinese literature, you have likely come across the figure of t
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural worl
What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain histori
Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the U.S. (Rutgers Univers
Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Cu
In Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda (Syracuse UP, 2024), Maha AbdelMegeed offers
A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part
Imagining Musical Pasts: the Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prim
Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Tabea Alexa Li
Although Katie Kitamura feels free when she writes—free from the “soup of everyday life,” from the p
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing struct
The enigma of William Shakespeare's religious beliefs has long tantalized scholars and enthusiasts a
The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh UP, 2021), by Huda Fakhreddine, examine
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, the monumental Sanskrit epic of the life of Rama, ideal man and incarnation
