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Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kobo, and Zhong Lihe—these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, J
Brenda Beck discusses her lifelong work on a Tamil folk legend, resulting in a graphic novel, an Eng
Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors. We discuss thei
Kathleen Lubey,'s book What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century (
The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo) was composed around 1160 at the imperial Bavari
King Lear has perhaps the most expansive cosmic scope of any of Shakespeare’s tragedies. In this pla
Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their
Robert Payne's Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature (Peter La
Today’s guest is Toril Moi, whose book Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenste
Translation is a mysterious process that combines the elements of writing – rhythm and voice, meanin
Volume 37 of Spenser Studies is a special issue on the theme of “Companionable Thinking: Spenser Wit
Amir Artaban Sedaghat’s Translating Rumi into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond (Routledge
When Tenzin Dickie was growing up in exile in India, she didn’t have access to works by Tibetan writ
It’s amazing that art historians like Robert Hillenbrand got to study the “Great Mongol Shahnama” at
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 202
Part 3 features close-readings of some of the play’s most significant speeches, with Professor Steph
Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for
In Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging (Ohio State University Press, 2023), Vivian Nun Hallor
What happens when you come of age in mid-life? Why is so challenging to figure out your own past? Ca
Today’s guest is Wayne Deakin, whose new book, Modern Language, Philosophy, and Criticism, has just
