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How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways tha
Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O'Neill's Young Adult Fiction (Ro
When three people in Philadelphia inhale dust developed by a scientist who has discovered parallel u
Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility (Brill, 2019) is the firs
From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and oth
Anne Enright, writer, critic, Booker winner, kindly made time back in 2023 for Irish literature mave
We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts,
In Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (University of Chicago Pr
Creation Lake (Scribner, 2024) is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woma
At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea o
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by va
Lesbian poetry as a form of socio-political praxis in the Philippine context. This episode’s guest a
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask.Before and After t
An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on fi
Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study t
If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century At
The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of Franc
Why is that when a loved one dies, grief seems inescapable--and then diminishes? The brilliant Edinb
Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being “poetic,” yet what that means o
What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles D
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