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...

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...

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...

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...