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In today’s cultural and political climate of relative LGBTQ+ inclusion, Settler Tenses: Queer Time a
Andrew’s debut novel Last Resort was published in 2022 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, and
Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children's books, visiting Harry Potter sites
Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess
"Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the R
Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency (Bloomsbury, 2024) offers the first maj
The life and works of the mysterious Indian yogin, Saraha, who has inspired Buddhist practitioners f
Mine Is The Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets Of Immanuel Of Rome (Centro Primo Levi, 2023) contains
Have you ever wanted to protect your books from forgetful borrowers, merciless page-folders or outri
Political Theorist B.J. (Bernard J.) Dobski has a new book focusing on Mark Twain’s final published
Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries—a period of vast economic change—reco
This week on Madison’s Notes, we sit down with philosopher and author Charles Taylor to discuss his
Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and
Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity (Oxford UP, 2024) dances a
In Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke UP, 2023), I. Augustus Durham examines melanch
James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man” is a powerful short story that describes the life of Jesse,
There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profou
In The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024), Sara Lodge tells stories o
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024) i
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive
