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Part 3 features close-readings from Professor Laurie Maguire of some of the play’s key speeches: Cal

In The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines (Brandeis UP, 2023), M

I am talking today to Mingwei Song about his new book, Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science

A wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded ac

In Medievalist Comics and the American Century (UP of Mississippi, 2016), Chris Bishop surveys the m

Simon Grennan's book A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) offers an original new

The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideali

Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US borde

Réka Máté's Portrayals of Women in Pakistan: An Analysis of Fahmīdah Riyāẓ's Urdu Poetry (de Gruyter

Believed to have emerged in the French Caribbean based on African spirit beliefs, the zombie represe

All families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays A lesbian partn

Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast the

With Professor Laurie Maguire, Part 2 explores the play’s many ambiguities — its uncertain geography

In the October 12, 2023 issue of The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Feinberg offered an annotated list of

In The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde (Duke UP, 2023),

Locus- and Nebula- award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark joins critic andré carrington (UC Riverside)

John Plotz of Recall This Book spoke in 2020 with Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University English profess

The life of a scholar is stressful. The best way to muddle through is with a stiff drink. Balancing

In Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel (Ohio State University Press, 2023), Livia Arndal Woods traces t

Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process