German lawmakers drafted a constitution in 1919 legalizing the censorship of movies and pulp fiction, and prioritizing social rights over individual rights...

Stein re-emerges as a major twentieth-century rhetorician, not a spin doctor, as the word might suggest to some, but as someone who follows as sure as she remakes the rules of writing, expression, and language...

Christopher Peacock, with a contribution from Lauran Hartley, masterfully introduces the work of contemporary Tibetan author Tsering Döndrup...

Cremins explores the history of Billy Batson, a boy who met a wizard that allowed him to transform into a superhero. When Billy says, “Shazam!” he becomes Captain Marvel...

McClanahan's book is a masterful exploration of the cultural politics of the financial crisis and a powerful mediation on how to make sense of an era of unrepayable debts...

John Dryden is often regarded as one of the most conservative writers in later seventeenth-century England, a time-serving “trimmer” who abandoned his early commitments to the English Republic to become the poet laureate and historiographer royal of Charles II’s new regime...

For some two hundred years now, Pentateuchal scholarship has been dominated by the Documentary Hypothesis, a paradigm made popular by Julius Wellhausen...

Richardson examines the cultural presence of Indians in the novels, poetry, plays and material culture of the eighteenth-century...

What options for resistance are left to the author of fiction in a nation structured by totalizing political and economic violence?

Is the New Testament text reliable? What do we do with textual variants? How do I use the Greek New Testament?

Dai interrogates the truly historic events unfolding in today’s China to ask what these mean for history itself...

Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...

In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship...

Does publishing have a diversity problem?

Golding examines the current status of Star Wars, as well as the similarities and differences between the old and the new...

The Bloomsbury Handbook is is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought...

These texts and others, Givens suggests, portray Christ apophatically: that is, by showing who Christ was not, in order to illuminate who Christ therefore must be...

Hackenbracht's book opens up questions about how seventeenth-century writers understood the Christian doctrine of the last judgement, and how the thought of that final reckoning shaped new attitudes to church and to nation....

Susan Lepselter asks what happens when we listen to “UFO talk” ethnographically, understanding it as a form of vernacular American poetics that must be made sense of within specific cultural and political contexts...

John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) is widely recognised as the greatest epic poem in the English language...

Adriana X. Jacobs offers a translation-centered reading of twentieth-century modern Hebrew poetry...

The fact that Korea’s experience of Japanese imperialism plays a role in present-day Japan-Korea relations is no secret to anyone

Why would anyone want to study Sanskrit, an ancient complex tongue? What’s the best way to go about doing so?

Why are myths of the Indian Great Goddess couched in a conversation between a deposed king and forest-dwelling ascetic?

Why does the narrative motif of ‘dialogue’ pervade Hindu texts?