Literature: History & Criticism

The New Directions Pearls series features a growing list of great authors short masterpieces. From César Airas offbeat and entrancing Literary Conf...

As awareness of climate change grows, so do the number of cultural depictions of environmental disaster. Graphic novels have reliably produced d...

Winston Churchill famously described the political alliance between the US and UK as a ''special relationship'', but throughout the cultural histor...

Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's nephew, son-in-law, and first editor, Henry Nelson Coleridge, began at the end of 1822 a record of Coleridge's remarks a...

Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's nephew, son-in-law, and first editor, Henry Nelson Coleridge, began at the end of 1822 a record of Coleridge's remarks a...

Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presagin...

The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian, Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of Chinese philosop...

Edited by Bei Dao, Shelby Chan, Gilbert Fong, Lucas Klein, and Christopher Mattison, Islands or Continents box set is an extended edition of the si...

Following the convening of International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, Islands or Continents is a collection of selected works by some of the mo...

Bram Stoker's initial notes and outlines for his landmark horror novel Dracula were auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1913 and eventually made...