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Amrita Ghosh's book Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts (Lexington Books, 202

When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka’s

Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis (U Arkansas Press, 2024) is a pioneeri

Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japa

Polo B. Moji's book Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Ro

Between 800 and 1700 CE, a plethora of Mahabharatas were created in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hin

The Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (MHM Limited and Amsterdam University

Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India (U Massachuset

From the author of Sea Change comes Green Frog: Stories (Vintage, 2024) a short story collection tha

The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) is

There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientifi

Game worlds differ from traditional fictional worlds. While literary and cinematic worlds are writte

Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters (Rutgers UP, 2020) examines The

In The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism (SUNY Press, 2023), Adi Mahalel

‘The result is that, at the present time, the world is at an impasse.’In 1956, Aimé Césaire pronounc

In this interview, Dr. Nicholas Taylor-Collins discusses his most recent book Shakespeare, Memory, a

Omar El Akkad joins critic Min Hyoung Song for a gripping conversation that interrogates fiction’s r

Xuanzang (600/602–664) was one of the most accomplished and consequential monks in the history of Ea

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themsel

In the second volume of The Weight of Words Series, In Fielding's Wake (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)