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Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, telling the story of one of history’s most
Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice
Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series.In this episode, our host
Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought (Routledge, 2023) imagines the ocean as central to underst
Celebrated, censored, canceled: Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn cannot be avoided. Willi
A husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost wi
Aside from being John’s (younger, suaver and beardier) brother, what has the inimitable David Plotz
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric (Princeton UP, 2023) examines how Black poetics, in antag
With the publication of her most recent novel, White Horse, Erika T. Wurth breaks from the realism t
Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by
Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader (Springer, 2023) is an anthology of researc
In Part 3, Professor Farah Karim-Cooper offers close-readings of some of the play’s most significant
Annabel Kim's second book*, Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature (University of M
Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel (U Minnesota Press, 2021) re
The heroic romance is one of the West's most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion an
Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic (U Toronto Press, 2022) argues that nineteenth-century
In 1943, three books appeared that changed American politics forever: Isabel Paterson's The God of t
The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. Fir
What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their mona
