An interview with Stuart Elden

An interview with Leah Comeau

Today I talked with Jack Zipes about a life in Folklore Studies, about some of his many publications, and about publishing fairy tales....

After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library to collect everything ever printed...

Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries...

Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire?

Paradis explores the myriad ways in which the Sudan, whose internal politics were influenced and shaped by Britain...

This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,

Yang explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation...

For Abell, fictional entities exist in the same way that marriages and corporations do...

The volume is compiled to honor the contribution of Marko Pavlyshyn to the development and establishment of Ukrainian studies in Australia, as well as across the globe..,

This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...

Livers offers a solid background that helps historicize the conspiracy preoccupations in Russia...

By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low volume of his sales forced him to seek work in Hollywood....

Theodor offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia....

Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, identity, and sexuality are negotiated in the rivalry of Batman and The Joker...

Sutton and Mifsud explain that our classical conceptions of stylistic language may be more open opening to otherness than stabilizing meaning...

The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of vernacular literary culture, scientific thinking and regional geopolitics...

In this episode you’ll hear disaster stories, finishing a book project, poetry, and what resilience is and isn’t...

The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century...

We talk about bad writing, but a lot more about how to make it good. There's even a dog....

Gordon explores the intimate friendships Faulkner maintained with gay men...

Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice....

Shneyder examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia's industrial revolution....