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Jim Finley--a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco--h
Jessica Romney's book Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece (U Michigan Press, 2020) ex
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revol
The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night (Black Lawrence Pres
Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has fou
In this episode of High Theory, Pardis Dabashi tells us about plot. A plot consists of a change with
Why did the New York Public Library ban a novel about women’s independence? What was the Human Poten
Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of se
Suspicious of what he called the spectator's "sticky" adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a
Are the canonical Gospels historically reliable? The four canonical Gospels are ancient biographies,
In The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America (Temple University Press, 2021), Timot
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Bo
The great English essayist and linguist Samuel Johnson was writing during the Enlightenment – the pe
By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained
When teaching a public course called “The Age of Debt” this winter break, I had the strange realizat
Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or
By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low
As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ide
George MacLeod's book Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony Af
Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature (Penn State UP, 2023
