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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