Focusing on the storied afterlives and artistic re-purposings of photographic images from key junctures of China’s twentieth-century – the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square protests – Hillenbrand shows how they expose the subtle contours of what it is permissible and what impermissible to know...

The Jātaka tales, or stories of the Buddha’s previous lives as a bodhisatta, are included in the Pāli Canon and have for centuries been a rich source of inspiration in Theravada Buddhism...

Paul Celan's poetry marks the end of European modernism..

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...

Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...

Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...

Jones problematizes long-held beliefs among literary critics and linguists that habla de negros as represented in dominant Spanish literature was exclusively racist stereotypes...

While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term "Central Europe" carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s...

Ollett argues that Prakit is “the most important Indian language you’ve never heard of.”

An interview with Tom Hoogervorst

Ellison tells the story of an African-American man who insists on his visibility, agency, and humanity in a country dead-set on not seeing him...

Walker and Roberts discuss the field of documentary editing and how the personal writings of southern women reveal the broader history of life in the U.S. South during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

“I am the Real,” is the ecstatic statement often associated with the early Sufi poet Mansur al-Hallaj...

The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies..,

Art Spiegelman's Maus is the story of an American cartoonist's efforts to uncover and record his father's story of survival of the Holocaust...

Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.

You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...

This book bears witness to what’s possible when the raw pain and heartbreak of life and death are worked with in Psychoanalysis...

The discipline of folkloristics in the People’s Republic of China is robust and well-funded...

How does the world of book reviews work?

"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

Larsen examines the American mythology of race, and its real-world effects,..

Why did early modern people change their religious affiliation? And how did they represent that change in writing?

"The Wollstonecraftian Mind" is an extensive compendium of Mary Wollstonecraft as a writer, as an interlocutor, as a philosopher and political theorist, and as a feminist thinker...