It’s time to move on to the next stage of assessing women’s literature. That’s Elaine Showalter’s message in her new book, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie ...
You have your Southern Gothic tales and your Westerns, the San Francisco beats and the New York poets — but what is the literary tradition of the Midwest? It’s a hazy question: People don’t think of ...
In certain cliffhangers on late-night television, dashing and strangely underdressed archaeologists in faraway places unearth artifacts of uncertain provenance. The discoveries cast new light on an ...
In 1856, British explorer Richard Burton described Somalia as a nation of poets. It may seem an unlikely moniker for a country that has since become defined by piracy, state collapse, and the many ...
I've mentioned several times, on this blog and my old one, how much I admire Ian McEwan. For my taste, his writing is some of the finest around, and I particularly love his meticulously crafted, ...
On April 8, 1971, London played host to the first ever World Romani Congress. April 8 was later declared International Roma Day, which, it so happens, is also Russian Literature Day. To commemorate ...
LAHORE: “The pre-modern literature in South Asia borrowed heavily from religious, bardic and folk traditions. Despite this, some independent texts exist. These include the Ardhakathanaka, an early ...
Garth Greenwell spoke with me from Iowa City, where he’s bracing for the release of his already widely praised first novel, “What Belongs To You” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 208 pp., $23). Set in ...
In 1856, British explorer Richard Burton described Somalia as a nation of poets. It may seem an unlikely moniker for a country that has since become defined by piracy, state collapse, and the many ...
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