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In Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America
The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author (PostHill Press, 2024
The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023)
Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives (Reaktion, 2023) by Jad Adams chronicles the vibrant and passionat
Historian Jeremy Black is comprehensive, as ever, but in his treatment of the British Gothic novel h
Part Two of director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films embeds viewers among the Fremen, the Indigenous i
Sven Birkerts is the co-editor of AGNI magazine, an essayist, and a literary critic perhaps best kno
Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each oth
A brief stay in France was, for many Chinese workers and Chinese Communist Party leaders, a vital st
When celebrated American novelist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor died at the age of thirty
In a radical and ambitious reconceptualization of the field, Colonialism, World Literature, and the
The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved s
In this episode of High Theory, Jonathan Kramnick talks about Close Reading. Contrary to the name, i
The use of disability as a metaphor is ubiquitous in popular culture – nowhere more so than in the m
Lee Gutkind is the founder of the literary magazine, Creative Nonfiction. He’s edited or authored ov
The ideal of ‘conversation’ recurs in modern thought as a symbol and practice central to ethics, dem
Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world's greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings
Michael Johnston's The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500 (Oxford UP, 2023) address
In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of
Today I talked to Mara Josi about her new book Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature (L
