The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.
The explosion of novels about intense female friendships, in the Elena Ferrante mold, is changing the genre—and making it ...
Welcoming translations gives the prize the potential to show that books from different cultures and written in languages ...
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A Post-Literate Age

Journalism and fiction are both essential to a thriving democracy.
But the essential insight of the dissidents, in Poland particularly but not in Poland alone, was that resistance against ...
Few people can claim their birth informed the ending to one of the 20th century’s most iconic novels, writes Tom Putnam. But ...
Dissertations represent the highest academic stakes in U.S. colleges and universities, demanding months of research, ...
Atwood's 'Book of Lives' has to be the most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century — ...
In Persuasion, Louisa Musgrove’s serious injury opens the way for another suitor. Jane Bennet catches a cold after riding in ...
Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers and nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a ...
For the first time in Thailand, theBALACProgram at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, now features a course titled "Dracula and Modern Culture," where students can connect ...