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Arya Aryan's The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) not only disc
In this conversation (one of my favorite interviews ever), I talk with Noah Askin of the University
James Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (U Pennsylvania Press,
Today I talked to Anna Hogeland about her new novel The Long Answer (Riverhead Books, 2022). Hogelan
Ariana Huberman's Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production
In Paris in 1953, one of the strangest and most popular plays of the 20th century premiered, Waiting
What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many wo
Many of the creative industries look like an hourglass. On the one side, you have creators; on the o
William Shakespeare is the greatest writer in history, and Hamlet is his greatest work. In Hamlet, S
Don Quixote was written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. He wrote it in two parts. Part one wa
Sritama Chatterjee talks about a model of literary criticism that she developed in the process of wr
Kim Stanley Robinson, SF novelist of renown, has three marvelous trilogies: The Three Californias, S
The French writer Marcel Proust was fascinated by life. But he was even more interested in how we pe
In 1934, tens of thousands of Communist guerillas fled Jiangxi, in an extended retreat through hazar
Philip Nanton's new book Riff: The Shake Keane Story (Papillote Press, 2022) follows the life and wo
Many people made the European Enlightenment, but probably nobody better represents the movement’s sp
Becoming the Writer You Already Are (Sage, 2022) helps scholars uncover their unique writing process
In 1967, Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez published his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Sol
Perhaps more than any other book, Ulysses has the reputation of being difficult—it is dense, allusiv
