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Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s (Stanford UP, 201
Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have lo
Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-c
Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a compr
Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, Reading Tolkien in Chines
In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 202
Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently cha
In this episode of Radio ReOrient we return to the literary theme of this season, to explore the wor
The interview featured an in-depth dialogue about The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain (Vernon
Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing pro
Kristin J. Jacobson In her new book, The American Adrenaline Narrative (University of Georgia Press)
The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880 (Harvard
The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to b
Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool UP, 2024) draws from a body of Angloph
Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP,
From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain—the exchange of one’s soul
What if the original teachings of Jesus were different from the Bible's sanitized 'orthodox' version
In Law and Humanities (Anthem Press, 2024), Professor Russell Sandberg and Dr Daniel Newman provide
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about div
The Weight of Words Series continues with Defoe's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2023), as historia
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