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Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National
What is the relationship between aesthetic presentation of thought and scientific conceptions of cog
Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But "dictator novels" do not simply res
In this fantastic recent episode from our colleagues at Novel Dialogue, Sheila Heti sits down with S
In this episode of High Theory, Matt Seybold tells us about Criticism, the glue that holds the brick
Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on inf
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literar
Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And
The New England Review bills itself as a “snapshot of the literary moment,” which for my guest Eliza
Neil Bernstein's The Complete Works of Claudian (Routledge, 2022) offers a modern, accurate, and acc
Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Dr. Nicholas Dames embarks on a lit
Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature (Stanford UP, 2023) is a digital-
While much recent ecocriticism has questioned the value of nature as a concept, Thought's Wilderness
Patrick Madden and Joey Franklin are English professors at Brigham Young University. Madden’s latest
Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women w
Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northe
East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature (Oxford University Press, 2023) ex
Matthew Rubery's book Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences (Stanford UP, 2022) explores
George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the Un
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literatur
