Literature: History & Criticism

In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empir...

When Edith Wharton became friends with Henry James, she joined a group of men who became her inner circle. This group included both well-known figu...

From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nont...

With its thirty-year Troubles still the longest civil conflict in modern European history, violence looms large in contemporary Irish culture and s...