Starting in the early 1930s, a small group of academics and writers met weekly in a pub in Oxford, England to discuss literature, religion, and ideas. Known as the Inklings...

Thoreau, set out for a simpler, more mindful, and more deeply lived life on Walden Pond on July 4th, 1845...

Mark Reese’s recent translation of Abdullah Qodiriy’s 1920s novel "Bygone Days" brings an exemplary piece of modern Uzbek literature to English-speaking audiences...

An interview with Adam Talib

Who were the Lost Girls?

Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 The Prophet is book that’s changed people’s lives...

Stewart examines the history behind the collection of more than 2,300 narratives from formerly enslaved people, as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Why and how is fiction important to women?

Holt explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years...

Colbert Cairns traces the biblical figure of Esther, the secret Jewish Queen, as she is reinvented as the patron saint for the early modern Sephardic community....

James Baldwin's appeal and admonition ring as true as they did in the 1960s, when the novelist became the nation's conscience...

Thomas dives into the question of, why magical stories are written for some people and not for others...

A political and moral thinker and a forerunner to modern feminism, Wollstonecraft has not received attention on par with the wide breath of her ideas...

Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine Lumpkin reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor.

Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted...

Lamana carefully investigates the writings of Indigenous intellectuals of the Andean region during Spanish colonialism...

Ingrid Horrocks talks about the way women travelers, specifically women wanderers, are represented in late-eighteenth century literature, particularly in the work of women writers...

“On or around December 1910, human character changed.”

Spackman’s riveting study identifies a strand of what it calls “Accidental Orientalism” in narratives by Italians who found themselves in Ottoman Egypt and Anatolia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Fort gives readers a chance to dive into the world of early 20th century Uzbek literature and understand the complex social problems of late Russian imperial Turkestan...

Gottlieb explores the decisive - and, until now, under-appreciated - influence exerted on Jewish memory by the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac narrative in the Book of Genesis...

What stories should we remember, and which ones are we forced to forget?

While typically circulating as a separate text, The Harivamsha forms the final part of the Mahabharata storyline...