It’s the second lecture for British literature and my professor projects a list of 26 authors on the board. These writers were all featured in “The Western Canon,” as defined by literary critic Harold ...

The power of poetry was recently celebrated at the University of Lagos, where renowned Nigerian poet Tanure Ojaide delivered an address. The event, which featured other lecturers from the Faculty of ...

“Why do we need to believe that our lives add up to some grand narrative?” writes Quan Barry. I find myself wondering if she’s criticizing the “main character moment” I was having while reading her ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Here’s my take: books that are about history—fiction or nonfiction—guide us in the decisions we make about setting and breaking boundaries. Reading ...

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in literature for his compelling and visionary work.

Following my previous article, here is another author’s perspective on how immigration affects literature. Sun Yung Shin is the author of “Unbearable Splendor,” a collection of essays and poems that ...

Join the Center for Global Education at Asia Society weekly on Thursdays for a Twitter chat on global education topics. Please join us this week on the Ides of March to discuss global perspectives in ...

A candidate for an associate professor of English position in Indigenous American literature studies gave ASU students and faculty a preview of his work on the Tempe campus Friday. Sean Teuton, ...

Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Nov., 2003), pp. 177-212 (36 pages) Though high-stakes testing currently dominates educational policy, few studies examine the consequences of such ...

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won ...