For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of ...
The Jane Austen Cleveland conference is expected to draw about 800 attendees from the world over, running the gamut from ...
The daughter of a Korean writer, Han Seung-won, Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang was born in Gwangju on 27 November 1970. Raised ...
John MacNeill Miller’s new book, “The Ecological Plot,” explores the entangled histories of literature, ecology and economics ...
The final novel from France’s most famous literary provocateur, set in 2027, features an antihero based on a real-life French ...
Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to independence with victory over the British at Yorktown.
It warns of 'incidences of violence, mental illness and expressions of Christian faith' in other medieval texts also ...
In a newly published book, Yale’s Fiona Bell introduces Avdotya Panaeva’s once-banned novel — and a gritty perspective on ...
Gerald Murnane rarely leaves his tiny Victorian town, but bookies are giving him high odds to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
In between feeding the masses, he helps direct the tourists who come to town in search of Goroke's most famous resident ... the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday evening ...
Over roughly two decades, Harlem became home to Black artists, musicians, authors and socialites of all sexual stripes. In a ...