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...

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...

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

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.