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Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themse
A compelling study of medical and literary imaginations, Anne Linton's Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outl
A novel about womanhood, modern family, and the interior landscape of maternal life, as seen through
Olga V. Solovieva's book The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differen
Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both
To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting
Where were the Brontë sisters actually born? If this was a quiz question, most people would give the
Today’s guest is Jonathan Kramnick, the author of a new book, Criticism and Truth: On Method in Lite
In this interview the distinguished historian Jackson Lears talks about his latest book, Animal Spir
Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed questions about good
Hunter S. Thompson was never a hippie, but his writing nonetheless helped define the counterculture
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abou
Linking literature, philosophy, art, and personal experience, a moving exploration of the wooded lan
Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private spa
Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and ND host John Plotz to discuss her incredibly varied oeu
What do Tulsa, Santa Fe, and New Orleans have in common? When viewed from the perspective of Indigen
Dr. Paul Fisher Davies' book Comics As Communication: A Functional Approach (Palgrave MacMillan, 201
In How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press
In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Dr Darryl Sterk, a Canadian eco-translator who is now bas
Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - befor
