In the summer of 1876, rebel French poet Arthur Rimbaud arrived on the Indonesian island of Java, enlisting in the colonial Dutch army before deserting after just two weeks, an escape still shrouded ...
A century ago, French writer André Breton published a manifesto that would go on to become one of the most influential ...
October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...
The Hong Kong writer’s penchant for transforming taboo subjects—death, illness, or gender—into fodder for intellectual ...
Han Kang, South Korea's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was slow to global acclaim, getting her first big ...
Han Kang, South Korea's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was slow to secure global acclaim, getting her first ...
Rachel Doherty, Assistant Director for Programming and Special Projects Center for Louisiana Studies, stopped by First at ...
Long before AI and robotics shaped our modern world, the 18th century witnessed the rise of automata — mechanical wonders ...
An eponymous play about the celebrated painter, singer, writer and actress Lu Xiaoman, made its debut in Beijing with a ...
Han Kang, 53, was named the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature. Just one day before, Korea had celebrated the promulgation of Hangul, the writing system of Korean, a language formerly ...
Han Kang is the first Asian woman to win the prize, joining the continent's other notable literature laureates like Rabindranath Tagore of India.
A festival that has already become a tradition in Naxos, blending culture, gastronomy, and literature, has just wrapped up ...