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When one thinks of your typical horror movie and it’s usual imagery, a number of tropes may come for
Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of
Part 2 focuses closely on the two major “characters” to whom the sonnets are addressed: a beautiful
In Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language (Luath, 2023), Dr. Clive Young sets out to
Dr. Halsall’s Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis (Ohio State UP, 2023) has four pr
From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing
W. H. Auden once said, “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Auden’s quote has been used for so many purpos
In The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya (SUNY Press, 2023), Steven E. Lindquist investigates the interse
In 1995, Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. During his speech, he explained th
The sonnet — a 14-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme, conventionally associated with love — was on
Today’s guest is Maaheen Ahmed, who has edited a new collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion t
A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters (Oxford University Press, 2023) is a
In this volume entitled Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity (Cambridge
Why do politicians write poems? And what does a politician’s poetry tell us about their leadership?
Recall This Book listeners already know the inimitable Martin Puchner (Professor of English and Thea
12 tables; 300 novels, 1500 pages of nature description: This is how Tom Comitta created The Nature
Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes Were Wa
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until t
Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their under
Leonie Hannan's book Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth Century Home (Manchester Univer
