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A missing boy. A corrupt system. A case that could change everything...When young queer dancer Wilbe
According to Vālmīki's Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa (early centuries CE), Śambūka was practicing severe acts of
In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet
Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the bi
Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seven
Christina M. García’s book, Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, a
In 2009, Fudan University launched China’s first MFA program in creative writing, spurring a wave of
In Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2024), Jerr
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics (U Arizona Press, 2024) by Dr. Ricardo Quintana-Vallej
How can the novel be a way to understand the development of nation-state borders? An important work
Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton, where he has taugh
Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the t
Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and ingenious versatility. His works engage in argument b
What’s the truth and what’s a lie? What’s a memoir, what’s a novel, and what if both are just a seri
For My Blemishless Lord (de Gruyter, 2023) presents the text and translation of the exquisite poem A
The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to
In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those coll
Radio ReOrient is back for another season, and this time Hizer Mir is joined by a new team of hosts:
Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creat
Building parallels between technology and the human imagination, Masande Ntshanga’s conversation wit