After the so-called “end of the great narratives” – according to someone synonymous with the sunset of modernity – the theoretical frameworks founded on the concept of totality have given way to a ...

On Wednesday, the essayist Christopher Hitchens announced that he has cancer of the esophagus and will soon begin chemotherapy. There are others who know him better than I who can reflect on his ...

Following my previous article, here is another author’s perspective on how immigration affects literature. Sun Yung Shin is the author of “Unbearable Splendor,” a collection of essays and poems that ...

It’s the second lecture for British literature and my professor projects a list of 26 authors on the board. These writers were all featured in “The Western Canon,” as defined by literary critic Harold ...

Building emergence on the ashes of conflict has been the recursive task of human beings throughout history. From the major revolutions to the two great wars, progress has usually replaced mourning to ...

What are your research topics? I am a literary scholar specialising in English- and French-language literature of the 19th century and early 20th century, picture books, comics and other works that ...

The world’s literature has long shared accounts of societies during epidemics and pandemics of one kind or another, and one of the best-known opening lines in all of literature deals not with a viral ...

The State of Indiana has long been famed as a home of authors. It is particularly a surprise to learn how many writers have emanated from Terre Haute. One immediately thinks of Max Ehrmann, Theodore ...