Literature: History & Criticism

One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of fifteen. By the tim...

Author of The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien, talked of ''desiring dragons''; that he would prefer ''a wilderness of dragons'' to the bleak territory of the u...

In Hillary Gravendyk''s The Soluble Hour, the speaker sings with visionary passion how the beloved and dear ones will soon be without her and lamen...

Selected by Brian Evenson as winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Prize In a future short on fossil fuels and flora, the military compels it...

In her book, Chrusciel maps the biblical event of annunciation onto the current migration crises. Annunciation becomes a symbol of the yes that w...

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho MarxOutside of a Dog is the captivating account of t...

Having been marginalized from the literature-proper sphere of Confucian elite culture, the novel began to transform significantly at turn of the tw...

Can todays society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance...