The story, which helped Canetti earn the Nobel Prize in literature, includes a character named Fischerele who aspires to become chess champion of the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"It's opening doors on behavior. I mean, literature is good. But the literature of the future is going to be based on genetics, not on environment. Believe me, the stuff we are learning is heavy." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Or you could cease being human altogether, and become an elf, ogre, alien, or any other creature from literature, movies, or mythology. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes or more, he had deliberately been standing just out of conversation range of the other boys, his back against the free Christian Science literature rack, his ungloved hands in his coat pockets. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The store had a chess collection—at prices lower than Buschke’s—combined with a specialization in Caribbean and radical literature. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Their literature, though it exists in written form, is a live oral tradition, and they are all in this sense literate. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

At Harvard, a fellow student marveled, “he intellectually looted the place,” drinking deeply of physics and chemistry, of course, but also mathematics, philosophy, and French literature. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In politics, science, philosophy and literature this was the period of the Enlightenment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He had read descriptions of it in the literature. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried paying attention to Mr. Gunthrie’s lecture on British literature, but the side of Miles’s face had turned chalky white and was morphing into sickly green. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Just as we might call Dunstaple’s contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English literature, so we should call John Dunstaple the father of the triad, and therefore of the Western harmonic system. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Charles was not all science by any means: He bathed the baby, kissed him, hugged him, walked him when he cried; he was anything but the stereotypical distant father so often portrayed in Victorian literature. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over a period of several years I doggedly sifted through the scientific literature, hoping to find a clue that would explain this conundrum. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In literature, we read a Tsonga translation of Booker T. Washington’s autobiography, Up from Slavery. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the African-American literature class I’d taken my freshman year where we had read fiction to try to understand American history in the nineteenth century. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And, indeed, he had either bought books in vast quantities or had had access to a remarkable library, for On the Magnet begins with the first systematic literature review. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This idea caught on, even though great literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Milton is bristling with sentences ending in prepositions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was simply trying to find out if she came from a family that loved good literature." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law, Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli, or Christ, it's here. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hollander, a reading enrichment teacher, shaped her lessons around robust literature—her classes met in small groups and talked informally about what they had read. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

On Monday, Ryan finds me in the hall and walks me to Russian literature. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Karhiders do not read much as a rule, and prefer their news and literature heard not seen; books and televising devices are less common than radios, and newspapers don’t exist. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Benzene itself has been recognized in medical literature for many years as a cause of leukemia. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Icelanders are among the most literate in the world and the Icelandic sagas rate among the greatest in literature. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not a trace of its use for literature has survived. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I read as much jail literature as I could locate. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

We the scholars of the Temple of Lkossa’s Great Library thusly deem that no literature about it shall be recorded or preserved, except for a simple record of those whose lives it takes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’d never even occurred to her there was such a thing as Puerto Rican literature, let alone that it would be worthy of a thick volume in a Columbia University library. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now she is a candidate for a Ph.D. in French literature at NYU. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Persian literature is ten times older than America!” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Consider our inability to grasp literature and most entertainment from the mortal age. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A freakish, freestanding, 115-foot-high stalagmite-type rock that, according to the literature, sat in an otherwise completely flat farmer’s field not far from the Red Carpet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The leprechaun bears live young and lives mostly in forest and woodland areas, though it enjoys attracting Muggle attention and as a consequence features almost as heavily as the fairy in Muggle literature for children. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even read James Michener—apologetically— saying she knew it wasn’t great literature, but she couldn’t help herself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for Hate Week, making collections for the savings campaign, and suchlike activities. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Although there is a large literature on the classification and natural history of spiders, it is scattered and fragmentary and deals not at all with their value as an agent of biological control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

You have only to turn to the literature of the period, with its stories of the mythological families such as Plantagenets, Capets and so forth, to see how the land lay. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The medical literature of this and other countries contains many significant cases that support Dr. Hargraves’ belief in a cause-and-effect relation between these chemicals and leukemia and other blood disorders. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A whole literature was soon dedicated to these notions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"I like the Bible. As literature, as history, I'm comfortable with it as a category." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rannells and Georgie headed off to a morning of fancy dresses, and the guys went to explore the world’s best literature. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

My plan was, as I taught, also to study, to take graduate courses in English literature and possibly writing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

This is no work of literature, like Pepys’ diary, but a much more telegraphic record of day-to-day facts. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The literature of veterinary medicine does not lack for cases of animals felled by swainsonine poisoning after grazing on forage contaminated with R. leguminicola. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what they termed ‘ ‘the true knowledge of the black man’ ’ that was possessed by the followers of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was given shape for me in their lengthy letters, sometimes containing printed literature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest of the three scientists, von Tschermak had received news of two other parallel studies that fully corroborated his results, then waded back into the scientific literature to discover Mendel. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Banks settled her load of literature onto a nearby shelf, crossed her arms over her chest and leaned up against the book stack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Our literature and our history are filled with stories of men and women whose will and inner strength nourished their rise from impoverishment to wealth, whether material, spiritual, or educational. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just quoting one of my favorite pieces of literature. It’s from the fourth act of Daeonica where Tarsus says: “Upon him I will visit famine and afire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was metallurgy as it applies to weapons, the philosophy of mortality, the psychology of immortality, and the literature of the Scythedom, from poetry to the wisdom found in famous scythes’ journals. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people, as Alvaro demonstrated during one night of revels. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Rabbinic literature can be studied in two different ways, in two directions, one might say. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I appreciate your commitment to protect the secrets of nearly century-old literature.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"He's in my literature class. I really like him," she says, voice gentler now. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hand out informational literature with all the cons of this development clearly outlined!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, hey there, you two! Come to pick through my fine literature selection?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Owning the literature was enough for a spell in jail, and when you were released you did not stay in town long. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

During the past quarter-century almost no mention of it is made in the proliferation of scientific literature in entomology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consider the following two examples, both drawn from the psychological literature. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere in art and literature that we meet the devil or his minions, they are tempting and glozing and generally making themselves tricky. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

They wanted me to teach a ‘minority literature’ course at some barrio community center on Saturday mornings. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My growing understanding of literature was a strength, even if my intense interest in it isolated me from people around me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was about the time literature was going through a bit of a renaissance, people clinging to that old adage about bedtime stories and the dreams they might bring. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

On the day that the display opened, C.P. and Butler sat defiantly at a table behind neat stacks of Klan literature while people walked around the room examining the exhibits. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She's used to the timid little freshmen in her literature classes at the University of Chicago. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I studied literature and liked it better. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Frank Zuccarini, an admissions officer, is standing in front of a table displaying literature for Rider University. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was a literature professor, neurotic and blinky behind his glasses, who Blaine once said was the only person at Yale that he trusted completely. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ross was going to teach things like poetry and literature, and he was always making jokes that weren’t very funny unless you knew what he was talking about. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music, song, poetry, and literature also raised everybody’s spirits—and could be used to express determination and to show patriotism. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At times he wanders up to the library’s sun-filled, unpopulated top floor, where all the literature is shelved. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Ma- hone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He knows about Henry’s parentage, about his older siblings Philip and Beatrice, that he studied English literature at Oxford and plays classical piano. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

No one seemed to be paying them much attention, and most of the literature they were handing out turned into a big One Drum welcome mat at the front gates. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think that there was such a thing as minority literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Severe reactions may occasionally occur in sensitive individuals, and medical literature records one death possibly, though not definitely, attributable to fire ant venom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had gone to Yale for world literature. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Teachers wanted to talk about chemistry, or the transcendental movement in literature; coaches could help you perfect your butterfly stroke. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I discovered that there was a great deal of writing on this very subject, and I made my way though the available literature on armed warfare and in particular guerrilla warfare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next fall Ishmael took up American literature. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of the densely wooded wilderness Europeans depicted in literature and art, the real American landscape included cornfields, berry patches, and groves of nut trees that contributed to the food supply. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe figured if he made literature compelling enough, they would enjoy it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She led the singing, acted as a critic of literature, wrote the social notes that went weekly to the Salims Journal. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the wise old grandfather found out, instead of raising a row as had been feared, he commented, dying with laughter, that it was the natural destiny of literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She left Pel several contemporary novels—literature discussions had been one of their bonds—and they promised to write each other. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The literature had a lot of information on that. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Who knew I had a taste for literature?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Their fatalistic attitude influenced my literature choices for this year. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The biggest jerk in the history of all literature,” Rhiannon ventures. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Of these, nine had distinct patterns of small mutations that the researchers could 'not find in any databases or in the literature.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He studied literature and poetry, attended the theatre regularly and continued to play the lute to a high standard. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, hey there, you two! Come to pick through my fine literature selection?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There is a relatively new literature that talks about genes that may or may not dispose certain individuals to crime. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result of this introduction to literature, and given the fact that Mr. Monroe is an English professor, Chester developed a taste for reading early in life. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He is both brilliant and problematical, and it is fair to say that his towering legacy has had more impact on the worlds of literature, philosophy and politics than, strictly speaking, on musical development. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Chevalier was a professor of French literature at Berkeley and the host of the Communist discussion group at which Oppenheimer had been spotted by the FBI about two years earlier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is Integrative: Provides excellent opportunities for integration as a natural entry or pivot point to other subject areas such as social studies, history, literature, language, and all of the arts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The King James translation of the Bible is considered the greatest piece of literature in English. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be fair, sometimes the topic of conversation really is the activity of researchers, such as an overview intended to introduce graduate students or other insiders to the scholarly literature in their chosen profession. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She had gotten used to the nuns, a literature of appropriate sentiments, poems with a message, expurgated texts. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I did end up graduating from Hampden, with a degree in English literature. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

From time to time a few mortals were translated to Olympus, but once they had been brought to heaven they vanished from literature. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but fortunately,” said my uncle, his eyes twinkling, “you are a dedicated scholar of ancient history and literature. You were able to solve it, I think.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘After all, not many schools are going to pass up the chance to get a Chicano with a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Periodicals devoted to the subject appeared, and references to its doctrines pervaded popular literature. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn't just that he found things fascinating in and of themselves and could memorize the whole phone book because it made for such excellent literature. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, these reference works, with their careful attention to history, literature, and actual usage, are the most adamant debunkers of grammatical nonsense. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was also a pleasure and a relief to have a maid who read and who seemed to be acquainted with some of the great masters of literature. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, while he was in the latrine, I sneaked into his spice-scented hideaway and rifled through a stack of Rosicrucian literature and a book by Nostradamus. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

So little is said about the scholarship boy in pages and pages of educational literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know, when you go to Oxford to get a degree in English literature, as I have, people always want to know who your favorite English author is. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had read widely in revolutionary literature, had observed many Communists, white and black, and had learned to know the daily hazards they faced and the sacrifices they made. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have enclosed some additional literature about the Foundation, including our mission statement, a brochure featuring past activities and successes, as well as some information about our future goals, both short- and long-term. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

However, the archaeological literature can be confusing in this respect, because many books and papers report uncalibrated dates as B.C. and fail to mention that they are actually uncalibrated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The moms are sitting on the couch, jumping up every few minutes to pull a favorite book off the shelves, laughing and impressing each other with their deep mutual love of literature. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Echoes of this sort of thing are to be found, as we have seen, widely scattered throughout medical literature, sometimes involving the chlorinated hydrocarbons, sometimes the organic phosphates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The last thing she wanted was an undergraduate debate on eighteenth-century literature. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There is a very extensive literature devoted to the relationship between Christianity and science in the early modern period. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Reading this literature, these books, led me to the canvas of my own humanity. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Rocco is a graduate student in English literature at the university where Aaron coaches women’s soccer. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Today in literature class I stood up to give my presentation and I made a little joke, and T laughed, a genuine chuckle, and afterward he told me it was a funny joke. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She found an empty table in the African American literature section. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I knew that I had violated the ideal of the macho by becoming such a dedicated student of language and literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, literature is full of splendid examples: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. ” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to me that there was something unmanly about my attachment to literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would take them to church at every opportunity and read them Watch Tower literature. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This book is perfect if you love thought-provoking literature from an objective, rational viewpoint, or if you dream about one day traveling the world yourself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But literature was very serious business for a guy like Dante. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, there already existed one halfgood photograph in the published literature. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Thus religion, Latin literature and Aristotelian philosophy all concurred: there was no such thing as new knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My sole interests were literature and philosophy, which made me a bad student at the school I had selected. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mom and Mrs. Van Dorn—who has now become Julia—discover that they both went to Northwestern and both majored in English literature. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah? I wouldn’t trust no ‘inspirational literature’ I got from that Ignatius. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby read chess literature while he was eating and when he was in bed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The other voice, the one I hid from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature Harlem had a rich literary heritage of which I knew nothing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

If just one of them moved, I thought, the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem nearly as immersed in literature as he was, and we wondered if he might be happier with someone who shared his love of books. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He read all the IVF literature and would talk to me all night about it, but his only actual duty was to show up at the doctor’s office and provide some sperm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For this was the point, surely: he would be a better doctor for having read literature. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sluggers have fallen in love with Kerouac and Keats and Woolf and Shakespeare, and hope I’ll press the button to preserve our literature for other alien races to explore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But some old literature professor from the university had died and bequeathed his Hamburg to our school. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

P. G. Wodehouse’s Right Ho, Jeeves offers what is among the funniest instances of a failure of decorum in all of literature. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I knew something about literature and what people plotted in their hearts and thought and suspected, but he knew the secret why behind each thought. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A standard motif in science fiction and UFO literature assumes extraterrestrials roughly as capable as we. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you just make a reference to Greek literature?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The realm of great literature was still far removed from who I was and reinforced the idea that I was at a crossroads in my life, with only the lesser path available to me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And unless for some reason you had started a discussion with her about literature or mathematics, you would never have known the extent of her brain-power. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I memorized it: ‘The praise of the unlettered by the highly educated is one of the primary themes of “elitist” literature.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get on my case about it. You’re the one that doesn’t know her classic literature.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It is a common consequence, written about in the medical literature under such titles as “Cognitive Effects of Childhood Leukemia Therapy” and “Disruption of Learning Processes by Chemotherapeutic Agents.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In what seemed even to me a doomed and Pyrrhic gesture, I switched to English literature without telling my parents. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

West African music also integrates literature, movement, body percussion, rhyme, and music, so the Orff approach is probably the most applicable teaching method. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He wanted to read and purchase Russian chess literature and visit the clubs and parks where chess was played. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing a few pictures of writers in our literature book—mostly boring-looking white guys with beards. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

There are lessons in foreign languages, social customs, literature, martial arts, the use of firearms, disguises, various accents, methods of forgery, and fine points of the law. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

—I’m not sure, Andy, but it certainly is apparent in literature. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there was talk of medical college, which after a literature degree seemed rather pretentious. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The school was strong in literature but just seemed so-so in creative writing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He studied British literature at Kim II Sung University, which is reserved for children of top officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The elevator doors dinged open and a few girls got out, talking animatedly about some poetry reading they were going to for their summer literature program. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

American autobiographical literature is filled with numerous accounts of remarkable men who pulled themselves to the summit by their bootstraps. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until Greek literature and art entered Italy the Romans felt no need for beautiful, poetic gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tone of the comments and the campaign literature about him went far beyond simple dislike for a presidential candidate because he was a Democrat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s practically a science genius, but she doesn’t care about literature or art. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

No music, theater, visual arts, or literature class will ever be able to compete with that. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Leave your father and King Lot outside the question for the moment and look at literature. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could now understand and was able to participate in discussions that were related to great literature. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes. In Persian literature, a fox is a coward.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In addition to literature, Cleopatra studied science and math. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I got up the nerve to write her a letter about becoming a psychology and literature major. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The stories are early literature as well as early science. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mission schools, black people learned English, European literature, medicine, the law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There is an extensive literature on the subject of prisoner’s dilemmas. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A glance through Muggle art and literature of the Middle Ages reveals that many of the creatures they now believe to be imaginary were then known to be real. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listens when I need to vent, talks when I don’t want to, and knows more about literature than anyone I’ve ever met. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They were certain that this new literature had an important role to play in helping to shape the consciousness of a people lacking adequate literary representation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s my literature and linguistics teacher, and he’s currently trying to teach me how to conjugate basic Kushoto verbs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My best teachers in college and graduate school, years before, had tried to prepare me for this conclusion, I think, when they discussed texts of aristocratic pastoral literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In terms of the scientific literature, you are correct.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

First, I would take all the basic courses; then I would specialize in English literature or philosophy. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The principal was right; my taste for books had been greatly influenced by the kinds of literature I had seen in the homes of white people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bought my own copy, hoping it would teach me about history or literature, but it didn’t. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the desirable adjunct to a civilized existence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Warren tells us to take out our MacBooks and begins the lesson on British literature. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In the literature can be found legions of examples of animals that could escape but did not, or did and returned. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Creating a sound carpet entails taking a story and adding sound effects, leitmotifs, instruments, vocal sounds, body percussion, and actors and/or a narrator, in order to bring literature to life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In one of the books he learned that the most important text in the literature of alchemy contained only a few lines, and had been inscribed on the surface of an emerald. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did I ever tell you that I was almost an English teacher? I spent a year studying medieval literature.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

That shelf would have the tea glass and the tray with paper clips and rubber bands, because literature has not been the focus of this dynasty. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t take any other classes: no science, no math, no literature. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So I decided to stay at Wilson and devote my energy to teaching literature, rather than perpetuating petty rivalries. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had noticed that Lula’s taste in literature had been tending away from the good old ripping yarns and toward the sticky romantic stuff. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Every inch of visible surface of the board had been decorated, with four somewhat gorgeous-looking columns of quotations from a variety of the world’s literatures. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then I settled on the books, staring at them stacked on their sides, spines out, the haphazard collection of literature that was Alaska. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The two of them talked very little of politics, literature, or the arts. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The descriptive literature that may be picked up in any hardware- or garden-supply store seldom if ever reveals the true hazard involved in handling or applying the material. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“In literature the word ‘oxymoron’ means which of the following? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

What Goudsmit did was go back in the medical literature and look for cases of PCP, and what he found is quite chilling. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had long argued that Communist literature was, for the most part, dull, esoteric, and Western-centered, but ought to be simple, clear, and relevant to the African masses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the jockeys’ room he orchestrated a string of clever practical jokes, sequestered himself in corners to pore over literature, and mystified his fellow jocks with aphorisms from Omar Khayyam and “Old Waldo” Emerson. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am currently second in literature and Latin but strive daily to improve.’ The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

"Oh, I passed English all right. It was mostly literature, though. I only wrote about two compositions the whole term," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Hollander’s essay and the comments of Lethem and Plagens cede ground and seem to grant that art and literature are too soft to withstand scientific examination. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He expected the professors and students there to have opinions about politics, religion, and literature beyond what he'd experienced in Ohio. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

What is important for our immediate purposes is the way in which his discussion echoes through the later literature on the law of nature, for of course Montaigne was read by all the educated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Besides, she personally found poetry very interesting, and since her students were more or less blank slates when it came to literature, she felt she might as well do what she liked. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Since the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the arts have been flourishing—painting and theater and literature. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was well read in a wide variety of subjects—religion, literature, history, and philosophy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

While other boys played in the street, Robert sat alone in his room studying languages, devouring books of literature and science, and filling notebooks with poetry. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they wrote about literature, and used characters as codes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, she taught us the world through literature. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He also began reading everything he could about Haiti, its history, language, music, literature, painting, and Voodoo religion. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

After Mr. Ingman gives us a short lesson on the importance of American literature, the bell rings. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There are fund-raising forms mixed with other literature. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

My response to my problems was to immerse myself in literature. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I kept waiting for the story to be the fine literature that even my stepmother declared it to be. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I found myself in the British Museum, at first content, reading English Renaissance literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a community of scholars, exploring physics, literature, medicine, astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology and engineering. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dunbar has combed through the anthropological literature and found that the number 150 pops up again and again. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Jim Don Cooper whined that he just couldn’t get excited over literature, Mr. Loring brought in the varsity cheerleaders and had them lead exuberant cheers for Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, and J. D. Salinger. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The year From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal for excellence in children’s literature. Another clue you completely missed, Charles.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“You look it up. I learned it by reading and preparing myself for the production of great literature. So you do the same.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both conditions had been described in medical literature long before the cause was known. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She has his coloring, wit, love of literature, and sometimes his temper. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

That is as true of advertising as it is of politics or literature. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Early in life, she’d expressed an interest in the sciences, but her father thought she’d have no culture and so at Cambridge, she studied French literature. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bobby continued reading anti-Semitic literature as well as neo-Nazi tracts and getting into heated arguments about the evilness of the Jews with virtually everyone he met. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is of profound importance, but it is completely invisible in the standard historical literature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I also knew that in London I would be able to obtain literature on guerrilla warfare that I had been unable to acquire elsewhere. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders had drawn the line not at secular literature, not at Freud—assuming he knew somehow that Danny had been reading Freud—but at Zionism. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I traveled to London to write a dissertation on English Renaissance literature, I was finally confident of membership in a ‘community of scholars.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the history of science literature it is generally taken for granted that Wittgenstein was a relativist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I pictured myself talking to him about literature and art, I gave him a warm welcome.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There is a whole literature of stories about Jenny in Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

From my reading of Marxist literature and from conversations with Marxists, I have gained the impression that Communists regard the parliamentary system of the West as undemocratic and reactionary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their literature asks how many of John Kwang’s money club members have stolen their jobs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After reading the literature, anyone who did not want to settle in the Salinas Valley was crazy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Garrison Griswold was a fraud! He touted a deep love and respect for literature, but did you know he once used a first-edition Dashiell Hammett as a coaster? A coaster!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He studied literature and languages, with a concentration in Classics, and was described by fellow students as “a scholar.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His paternal grandfather, a former professor of European literature at Calcutta University, had read from them aloud in English translations when Ashoke was a boy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were in the books and in the literature. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew they were special from their jeans and T-shirts, their knowing, ironic looks when obscure works of literature were referred to. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It was a horse-drawn cart. Donated by a Victorian merchant named George Moore to ‘diffuse good literature among the rural population.’” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

What good was a degree in German literature going to do me? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She toured the room, carefully examining the photographs of Klansmen saluting flaming crosses, a display of Nazi armbands, and a pile of hate literature published by the National States’ Rights Party. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But we were boys who liked to think and talk about elements inside the literature he put in front of us—relationships, emotion, conflict, ideas. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And the disparate literature of the colored tribes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I was always arguing that comic books were literature too. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Besides serving as president, he also taught Greek, Latin, mathematics, geology, English literature, history, grammar, and philosophy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Its members destroy art and literature, kill famous figures throughout history, demanding time travel cease or they will dismantle the whole of time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I have come to understand better why works of literature—while never intimate, never individually addressed to the reader—are so often among the most personal statements we hear in our lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laura is raising her girls American style, reading all the new literature, so she knows she shouldn't have beaten Yoyo that time the girl gave them such a scare. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

No university would ask any student to devour literature as I did when this new world opened to me, of being able to read and understand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The library was destroyed and so Persian literature doesn’t go back much further than that. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I rode the bus out there every morning to teach grammar and literature to the oddly unpoetic children of this endeavor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Major Major switched immediately to American literature, but not before the F.B.I. had opened a file on him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow, we will begin another classic of children’s literature. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I decided to keep my misadventure secret, that I would tell no one that I had been unwittingly an agent for pro-Ku Klux Klan literature. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does such a thing as “the fatal flaw,” that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The odd thing was that in the classroom teachers reminded me of both my public identity and power as a student of literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Garrison Griswold was a fraud! He touted a deep love and respect for literature, but did you know he once used a first-edition Dashiell Hammett as a coaster? A coaster!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dad had spent the spring reading out loud from the camp’s literature, but the only thing I’d cared about was that I was going to camp with other classical musicians. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a standard phrase that is used over and over again in the literature: ‘Galileo turned his telescope to the heavens.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This type of phenomenon has been described in the psychological literature as pluralistic ignorance, in which people misjudge the norm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had a passion, in history, for Edward Gibbon, and, in literature, for the journals of Madame de Stael. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was a demanding, witty, spry woman who was the first white person I ever had an ongoing dialogue with about music and literature, which she enjoyed greatly. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach life. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A swell kid, Cookie, and she had liked him, pitied him, babied him, inspired him to read “serious literature”—Gone with the Wind, This Is My Beloved. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw,” he said, “was an obsession with order. One sees it in their architecture, their literature, their laws—this fierce denial of darkness, unreason, chaos.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Fräulein Engel, you are not a student of literature,” he said. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“It was good. A little over my head. I was a biochemistry major, remember, not a literature guy. I do wish it had ended.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As long as I kept watch on the DNA literature, there was a chance that something might pop out of lunch or teatime conversations. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Mom knows politics and history and English literature inside out, and Dad's a certified brainiac, so he knows tons. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that he could not concentrate on “literature,” however much he might admire it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The influence of Greek art and literature became so powerful in Rome that ancient Roman deities were changed to resemble the corresponding Greek gods, and were considered to be the same. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The widow of a big Boston lawyer, she collected funds for various ventures, the publication and dissemination of colored literature a particular concern. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For much of the journey, the teenager has been reading a paperback copy of Anna Karenina for a class in Russian literature. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A case is mentioned in the literature of a stoat and a rat living in a companion relationship, while other rats presented to the stoat were devoured by it in the typical way of stoats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were so called because, when they wrote, the center of Greek literature had moved from Greece to Alexandria in Egypt. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grew to hate the growing pages of my dissertation on genre and Renaissance literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the only coherent part of the latter piece of literature were the opening lines, Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally stories familiar to us through literature and art have come down to us only in his pages. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world they represented, of philosophy, science, literature—an entire civilization—took on a life that was distinct from the life I had known. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She saw in him a metamorphosis his senior year, a fascination with vocabulary and literature and trying to write essays with perception and clarity. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As one chess master said of him; “Bobby virtually inhaled chess literature. He remembered everything and it became part of him.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Probably he will shelve it alongside specimens of that exotic new genre, ‘ethnic literature.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were unaware that Bobby had read literature in high school, and for his own enjoyment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Second, Mrs. Caruthers’s choice of literature left something to be desired. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I took English literature and health and American history. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find no literature or empirical data directed to a middle schooler. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Rise and fall—this was the doctor’s business, and it was literatures too. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My freshman literature teacher only smiled when I mentioned the grammar school incident concerning Flaubert. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found, stumbled upon, was led to, or was given great literature. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I continued to struggle with Shona and now English literature, but by the end of the semester, my grades were once again the best in the class. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Gomez herself had known what was coming when she handed out campaign literature one day in the northeast. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom taught US Latino literature in the English department, so sniffing out “authors of color” was one of her SuperMexican superpowers. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The Orff method makes use of nursery rhymes, folktales, folksongs, folkdances, and authentic, classical compositions—all music and literature of primary importance and quality. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The aim of this book is not to venture into the long-running, vigorous debate in the scholarly literature regarding what does and does not constitute a caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The literature of Everest is rife with accounts of hallucinatory experiences attributable to hypoxia and fatigue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was von Linden of course—I almost want to say “as usual,” as he often comes in now to chat briefly with me about German literature when he’s finished work. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He dropped out of high school in England and took the GED here and now is a freshman at Lost Cove U. studying mostly literature, art history, and photography. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s got him a bad cough, that boy. Well, maybe he’ll feel a little better after he reads that thing Ignatius give me to give him. Ignatius says it’s inspirational literature.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer confidently told them he had consulted world-renowned experts and read all the literature. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Students would be nice and offer us literature, he said, but as we paused to take it they would ink our dress, grab our books, or worse. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother. Princess Catherine, oldest daughter of Queen Mary, first princess to obtain a doctorate—English literature,” he rattles off. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was something that Woodridge had said in the literature class back at college. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re right, Mary Anne, I’m an enigma, like a Chink. But a great subject for literature. No doubt about it. You can be my Boswell.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s real literature, the kind of human story people will read in two hundred years,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This year, Momma decided to go back to school to get her master’s in English literature. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

This spring was a fire without thrift in the grand literature of the seasons the Meecham family had watched from their verandas. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked digging through the bins of used bookstores to buy sci-fi and classic literature; he liked books, holding them and turning their pages. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the word 'music' comes from the Greek povaiy - mousike, referring to the fruits of the nine muses in literature, science and the arts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Records show that Cleopatra studied subjects based on Greek literature. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Our whole house is like a library, which figures since Mom's a literature freak. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We now know this, but no one in the sixteenth century realized it, and it has caused a great deal of confusion in the historical literature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The literature of veterinary medicine is rife with cases of animals stricken by swainsonine poisoning after eating damp forage contaminated with R. leguminicola. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Irish cultural organization, which also promotes literature and the visual arts, returned to producing plays for the first time since 2011 with an immersive theatrical experience. Don’t call Patti LuPone’s Wolf Trap show a cabaret, and don’t use your cellphone 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Thus Lawrence was all but wiped from the consciousness of students of English literature in the 1970s as a consequence of Kate Millett and others loading him with the twin accusations of patriarchy and misogyny. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z

I really hope it pushes people towards his literature. New adventure 2011-03-18T14:00:24Z

At all three Bellow, cash-poor and not yet famous, taught literature while he fervently created his own. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Among those tolling the bell is Sarah Churchwell, the cultural critic and American professor of literature at the University of East Anglia, for whom Bacall was the last in a line of strong, mature heroines. Why no future Hollywood star could ever match Lauren Bacall's allure 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

We met at university, both of us studying literature. Ian Rankin: By the Book 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Of course, that’s one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. Review: ‘The Dream of My Return,’ by Horacio Castellanos Moya 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

The collection, which included song lyrics and a Rolling Stones playlist, was the centrepiece of an English literature and history sale. Mick Jagger's letters sent to secret lover sell for £187,250 2012-12-12T21:32:19Z

She created Harry and his entourage who will live in the halls of literature for all time. How Much Magic Can ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Make on Broadway? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

The group said that it would use this latest endowment to continue awarding unrestricted $50,000 fellowships to accomplished artists in disciplines like architecture and design, dance, literature, music, theater and visual arts. United States Artists Picks Up $20 Million in Funding From Ford, Others 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Like Finnegans Wake though more readable, like Infinite Jest though shorter, as unsuitable to cinematic representation as Tristram Shandy or Life: A User's Manual, Cloud Atlas was doomed, he believed, to remain mere literature. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

And while 90 percent of all ancient literature has been lost, paganism still had a foothold on the streets. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

I was a literature major in college in the 1960s, but as a freshman, I had a science requirement to fulfill. A Memory Museum, Courtesy of a Critic-Curator 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hoggett, 39, and Mr. Graham, 40, have been friends since studying English literature at Swansea University, in Wales, and neither has a dance background. How to Throw Punches Without Getting Hurt 2011-02-25T14:52:59Z

If one looks at 19th-century literature and intellectual scope, it's George Eliot … and Elizabeth Gaskell. AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural 2010-08-20T18:37:00Z

Mary had read the “Iliad” and “Odyssey” closely, although, as she claimed, she was much too immersed in English literature to find time to learn Greek. I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman? 2012-11-11T02:15:00Z

Though it deftly uses 21st-century technology, Mr. Landsman’s production is also steeped in the harsh sentimentality associated with literature from the early days of this country’s industrialization. Review: ‘Empathy School & Love Story’ Plumbs the Varieties of Loneliness 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The campaign was started earlier this year after BookCon, an offshoot of the trade convention BookExpo America, invited 30 writers to a panel on children's literature, all of whom were white. Daniel Handler announces donation to diverse children's book campaign 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Moreover, as the literature in Sacharoff’s bibliography amply documents, the use of the air weapon underwent a subtle and important change in South Vietnam from the previous two wars. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Things are less contentious with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which unites characters from across literature. Alan Moore Is Preparing a Six-Part Finale for Extraordinary Gentlemen 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Beginning in October, a succession of festivals — devoted to literature, poetry, photography, theater, fashion — cascade into the party-filled holidays. Lagos, City of Hustle, Builds an Art ‘Ecosystem’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Some even create their own festivals devoted to food, literature or music, and others offer easy access to destination events nearby. 10 Festive Hotels in Europe 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1929, Lewis studied journalism in college and became a professor of English literature at Mississippi State University. Splatter king Herschell Gordon Lewis dies aged 87 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

It’s among the oldest surviving works of Western civilization, from before literature was literature. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

She studied English literature at King’s College in London, and, like Lucy, struggled to connect with the experiences of her classmates. Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

When Mr. Grass received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, the Swedish Academy credited the book with having granted German literature “a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.” Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Pizzas and pastas begin to arrive, and the group chatter travels loosely from photography to literature to issues of gentrification. We watch artist Harry Gamboa Jr. stage a fotonovela at the site of L.A.'s demolished 6th Street Bridge 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

In courtly literature, the relationship between the knight and his lady was a two-way street. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z

Small-town hockey fans howl their biggest anthems in parking lots after games; assistant professors of Canadian literature listen to their later work while jogging. Watching Canada’s Biggest Rock Band Say a Dramatic Goodbye 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

Definitely we were considered a niche in the business, just putting African diasporic literature at the forefront. ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

The series “Mad Men” was woven through with the music, literature, and other culture of the years in which it took place, even when it wasn’t made explicit. The poetry of “Mad Men”: When Matthew Weiner first read Frank O’Hara, “it was just like total time travel” 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

Also, the bathroom, the kitchen, the laundry and, while we’re at it, the bedside table, now topped with a tower of seasonal consumption literature. The art of holiday catalogues: Selling the $300 ax you never knew you wanted 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

He decried the "professionalization" of literature in America and Europe through grants and other financial support. 7 reasons why the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is a Belarusian you don't know 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

I want to say, of course literature is just as important, but this is something in the dead of night I kind of worry about. Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘Some awful things have happened in the last year . . . but these are not uninteresting times’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

And when human relations change there is at the same time a change in religion, conduct, politics, and literature. Was the first world war accompanied by a rising literary nationalism? 2013-01-29T17:21:44Z

The sexualised girl, she argues, has replaced the fallen woman of Victorian literature as a figure of concern – and yet for Egan this says more about those expressing their concern rather than its object. Sex, lies and teenage girls 2013-03-11T11:00:01Z

But it is this very power — to inspire us to insist a flock of sheep is an opposing army — that is literature’s true subject, according to the critic and journalist Elif Batuman. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

While a fine work of literature never needs updating, a translation, however wonderful, gathers dust. We don't deserve to be lost in translation 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

An unlikely rocker who studied Anglo-Saxon literature and worked as a schoolteacher before joining Dr. Feelgood, he is a cult hero - more influential than famous, and cherished by his fans. Dying guitarist Wilko Johnson rocks until the end 2013-02-04T11:16:03Z

Personally, I believe there’s lots of good literature in Korea. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

“That’s not to say it’s a ‘great book’, but for academic literature, whether or not something is ‘great’ is sort of beside the point.” Majoring in Potterology 2012-05-25T19:20:00Z

Wiman, who was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer several years ago, wrestles with his own mortality and ambitions as he searches for truth through literature. Review | Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poems and other best collections to read this month 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Films, news, literature, science, city planning, economics, the stories we tell ourselves about our past, present and future, are all marked – disfigured – by a female-shaped “absent presence”. The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

How many characters in literature are inspired by ex paramours? The science of Jerry and Elaine: The unsettling reasons why some exes keep each other close 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

In fact, “The Twilight Zone” is wildly innovative, a major contribution to literature, in Chile and beyond, that deals with trauma and its aftermath. When a Nation’s Torturous Past Resembles ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

You can almost hear the cogs of the commissioning process grinding: world history – world literature – global audience – global literary brand… ? Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor – review 2012-09-29T23:05:08Z

Breon Mitchell, professor emeritus of Germanic studies and comparative literature at Indiana University, said in a phone interview that Mr. Woods was “one of the most important German translators of his generation.” John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Obviously, no work of art is created in a vacuum – but what are the more noteworthy examples of literature owing its existence to a second author?  Do too many authors spoil the book? 2011-02-14T16:02:57Z

The elephant is Thailand’s national animal and appears throughout history and literature. Elephant Santas deliver Christmas presents at Thai school 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Macfarlane specialises in contemporary literature at Cambridge and writes on literature, travel and nature for various publications. Author Macfarlane to chair Booker 2012-11-22T12:16:57Z

I'm all for admitting more books into the conversation, but contemporary novels are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for being a true student of literature. Michael Gove is right about reading ? so fund humanities 2011-04-01T15:10:05Z

As late as World War I, the English literature taught at Oxford ended with the Romantics. Bob Dylan, a laureate sure, but by what measure a poet 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

“I like being around literature, art and music, and the people who like that stuff,” said Ynsua, who doesn’t own a computer or subscribe to cable TV. In the Jersey Suburbs, a Bookstore Whose Vibe Is Pure Narnia 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

However, academia serves as a gatekeeper for literature, and a responsible gatekeeper must meter opportunities in such a way that reflects the population and allows necessary stories to be told. Most writers get screwed: We did the math, and it’s true — literary prizes exclude writers outside the campus gates 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

The contemporary novelist, I'm sure, is working on that, but meanwhile he and she are involved in reviving some of the oldest traditions of animal and botanical literature. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

Instead, Reynolds recommends books written in a “natural tongue,” in comparative literature and the use of nontraditional materials — comic books and rap music, for example — “as a catalyst for literacy.” How a kid who didn’t read a book until he was 17 grew up to become a literary star 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

In the literature on fathering, we have had everybody from Margaret Mead to Bill Cosby helping us try to identify what the fathering experience is about. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z

Did you feel the pulse-quickening vibrations of every recent college grad and literature fan? From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

“If we lose the Irish language, we lose our native literature,” he said, looking morose. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

But as a middle-aged man he reread it and discovered a forgotten piece of Chinese literature — one he thought could be better transformed for the stage from the perspective of an insider. 'Flower Drum Song' author C.Y. Lee eyes San Gabriel Valley for new stories 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

He had grown up in San Francisco, and knew City Lights Bookstore in North Beach, a beacon of books and literature in a picturesque old neighborhood close to a bay. The evolution of Elliott Bay Book Co. 2013-06-21T20:57:21Z

In ninth grade, I doggedly worked my way through a two-volume history of English literature mainly to show off. Perspective | To read or reread? New books are alluring, but don’t discount the value of the familiar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Nor is its assumption that Modern Standard Arabic is a lingua franca suitable for all forms of literature and all Arab audiences a species of Orientalism. Translating 'Frozen' Into Arabic 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

I headed into a world for which my previous life had never prepared me — a degree in secular, foreign literatures and romances of my own choosing. Sins of a good Mormon boy 2012-09-14T23:30:00Z

It seemed like the stuff of fiction: a public-relations campaign banking on the commercial viability of high-end literature. The Woman Behind Latin America's Literary Boom 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

When I pose this question to students in my American literature and culture classes, I receive stunned silence or nervous laughs. Women used to dominate the beer industry — until the witch accusations started pouring in 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Young people once waited tables to support their interest in other parts of the culture such as theater or visual art or literature. What Americans Missed Most About Going to Restaurants. (It Wasn’t the Food.) 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

A final note: Those especially interested in children's literature should check out two other new books. New guide to children's books for parents 2010-10-16T01:40:00Z

I ask where his love of contemporary literature came from. Publishing bad boy Giancarlo DiTrapano: Gordon Lish calls me “darling” 2013-09-07T19:00:00Z

“It’s never just rain,” Thomas C. Foster, the common man’s literature professor, likes to say. Woody Allen’s romanticized rain (and Hemingway, and Toni Morrison and James Joyce) 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

"Colbert deserves to be held against the greatest satirists in American history," says Sophia McClennen, a professor of international affairs and comparative literature at Penn State and the author of "Colbert's America: Satire and Democracy." Colbert: To academics, he's the Higgs boson of political satire 2012-07-10T19:44:07Z

Some fans view “The Buried Giant” as a leap not just for Mr. Ishiguro, but also for fantasy literature as a whole. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The winner of the 2020 National Book Award for translated literature is a ghost story, of sorts, about a dead man haunting a railway station and looking back at his tortured life. The top audiobooks of the last year, according to our readers 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

Face it, the only time you’re ever going to discuss literature is on a date or at a cocktail party. Style Invitational Week 1087: The core ridiculum — courses you’d like to see

Of course that's not entirely true: sometimes we just make small talk, or chat about literature, music, philosophy, history and so on. "One nation united under pasta": How the "discovery of pasta" shaped Italy 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Five independent experts, including authors and literature critics, will participate in the selection process. Two Nobel Prizes in Literature to Be Awarded This Year After Scandal 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The longlist for poetry and young people's literature each have five books written by women and five by men. National Book Award announces nonfiction longlist 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Sir, you reveal more about your own education and bias than American or British literature. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

He majored in comparative literature at Princeton, and took graduate courses in history and political thought at Columbia, but he decided he wasn’t cut out for academia. A Partisan Books Editor Places a Bet on Balance 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Her fourth novel, "Babel: An Arcane History" drew upon her love of language, literature and academic settings. "My editors were just egging me on": "Yellowface" author on depicting the cutthroat publishing world 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Their relationship in the new “Star Trek Beyond” illustrates one of the great fantasies of management literature, namely that interpersonal antagonism can be harnessed for productive ends. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Adelaide Clemens's performance as Valentine Wannop in the recent TV adaptation of Parade's End was a missed opportunity to deplore – there aren't many great portraits of women political activists in our literature. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z

A passionate player himself, Phillips views the game as something to share, an organizing principle in his life, as important to him as literature and writing. A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

“Heart and Soul,” Kadir Nelson’s sweeping narrative of African-American history, fills in the stories that literature for young readers too often leaves out. Help: My Child Doesn’t Know Another President Besides the Current One 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

He was a polymath with an insatiable curiosity who drew from a deep reservoir of knowledge in history, philosophy, literature and popular culture. Rodney Graham, Conceptual Artist Who Starred in His Work, Dies at 73 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

A: The cool thing about literature for younger people is not just reading the text but experiencing the conversation with the parent or the teacher — that bonding experience. How frank should we be with kids about love and loss? A new book offers help. 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

“Previously we had a more, let’s say, Eurocentric perspective of literature and now we are looking all over the world,” he said in a video interview. Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Bridging long distances — measured in actual miles or across cultural chasms — remains one of literature’s most reliably thrilling tricks. Around the World in Books 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

The literature prize election is by secret ballot among the 18 members of the Swedish Academy. Nobel literature juror in RI denies prize biases 2011-04-14T03:29:08Z

A 2006 review of the literature for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine suggested that 40 could be considered the “amber light” in the reproductive life of men, as 35 is for women. ‘There was nothing wrong with my wife – it was me’: the men waking up to fertility problems 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Now through next November, speakers will address the state of journalism, female superheroes in pop culture, baseball and history, world literature and more! Notes from all over: from the American Library Association to Queen Anne 2013-02-01T23:56:40Z

The wristbands are embedded with microchips and scanned, according to its literature, “at key stages of the journey,” triggering text notifications to up to five people. After high-profile incidents, parents scrutinize airlines’ unaccompanied-minor procedures 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The “Case History” pictures have compelled, disturbed and enraged viewers for two decades now, with a corpus of academic literature now trailing behind them. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

The poet, who was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for literature in 1985, died in 2010 at the age of 96. Songs give new life to Holocaust victims' poetry 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Dr. Kalanithi’s abiding and eclectic interest in serious literature serves him well throughout “When Breath Becomes Air.” Review: In ‘When Breath Becomes Air,’ Dr. Paul Kalanithi Confronts an Early Death 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Both demonstrated French's gift for merging the best traits of the crime genre with the compassionate insights and nimble prose associated with "serious" literature. New in crime fiction: a brilliant Irish mystery, a new thriller about MI5, and J.A. Jance's latest Arizona-set story 2010-07-07T20:15:00Z

At the same time he was attracted to a new movement called Dada, which embraced art and literature equally and strove to confuse distinctions between art and life. Art Review: Versatile Collagist, Dangerous Times 2011-03-31T22:05:39Z

When a professor of French literature, Billy Sweetbriar, takes him under his wing, Stub adopts a new identity: Charter Chase, a Fulbright scholar from New South Wales studying the enigmatic Vanderloon. Rikki Ducornet's 'Brightfellow' is a sophisticated embodiment of children's imagination 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

He nods toward Beethoven’s unhappy childhood, but emphasizes “the golden age of old Bonn’s intellectual and artistic life” and “the town’s endless talk of philosophy, science, music, politics, literature.” ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Your book is really deeply engaged with literature. Janet Mock’s advice to media: “See trans people as people” 2014-02-06T00:00:00Z

Waters, another novelist who has studied literature as well as read it, offers delicious surprises to those who have done likewise. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z

“There are a lot of reluctant heroines in teen literature, like, ‘I just wanted to be a normal girl, but I was chosen to save the world!’ ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ was always progressive. Now, Netflix’s version is empowering a new generation. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Rooney became a literary sensation with the release of her 2017 debut novel, “Conversations With Friends,” which she wrote while studying for a master’s degree in American literature at Trinity College in Dublin. Sally Rooney to Publish ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

A contemporary described Bronzino as a man “who delights much in literature, poetry and music,” all of which informed his sophisticated painted images. Review: Bronzino Emerges From Limbo 2010-11-16T08:30:00Z

He talked literature with the others, but he consoled me. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Franco has had a longstanding interest in literature. James Franco will bring lesser-known John Steinbeck book to screen 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Occasionally, though, there are worthy additions to tree literature. Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Some of his art is now taking centre stage at the British Academy's free literature week celebrations in London. Unloved books turned into artwork 2013-05-20T14:03:00Z

The database – which dictionary compilers refer to as a "corpus" – reveals the influence of popular children's literature. BlackBerry cupcakes and Googling: new study of UK children's language 2012-05-28T16:25:20Z

Nuruddin Farah didn’t win the Nobel Prize in literature last month as was predicted — or at least hoped — in some quarters, but he remains a perennial contender. Nuruddin Farah’s ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ wrestles with grand political, social themes

As a teacher, Olsen developed pioneering courses in feminist and working-class literature. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

With such vivid characters and controversies, our campaign season has plenty of parallels in film, TV, theater, music and literature. The many ways pop culture warned us about the 2016 election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

“My vengeance, which would be a book, of course, would not only be a blow in defense of my cursed father but in the service of literature, of truth, of benefit to my fellow Americans.” Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z

“It was impossible to overlook just how important literature was here,” she writes, in “Überbitten,” the 700-page autobiographical novel she published, to great acclaim, earlier this year. An American Jewish Author Now Calls Germany Home 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

The last American writer to win the Nobel for literature was Toni Morrison, in 1993. Patrick Modiano Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

One of the great quotes in American literature. Bruce Springsteen: By the Book 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Given his sensitivity to literature, it is a wonder that he was not drawn to . | 'Faust': Botstein?s American Symphony in Schumann?s ?Faust? 2010-04-11T21:16:00Z

Forget Bob Dylan, huffing on his harmonica — for hundreds of years the academy didn’t know what to do with literature in English. Bob Dylan, a laureate sure, but by what measure a poet 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Readers never learn her name but come to know her through her artistic taste and formative experiences with literature. 14 New Books Coming in March 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The notion of the outsider is central to Rich’s thinking, a key that opens subjects ranging from literature to feminism to politics, which, in both essays and poems, are all effortlessly — and necessarily — interwoven. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The director said he delved into medical literature while researching his movie, which poses questions about the potential dangers of new technologies like genetic engineering and growing human organs in a laboratory. Almodovar catches Cannes off guard with horror film 2011-05-19T14:17:35Z

It’s kind of the core in literature, the division between writing and the world.” Karl Ove Knausgaard on How He Writes and Taboo Subjects 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Through his rich baritone, the man who has endured more "Anaconda" sequels than anyone should have to makes the case for the King James Bible as work of English literature on equal footing with Shakespeare. The weird world of straight-to-DVD Christian film 2011-04-16T15:01:00Z

In 1983 Mr. Steinberg became the first art historian to receive an award for literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Leo Steinberg, Adventurous Art Historian, Dies at 90 2011-03-14T23:19:13Z

And then Hadley introduces an unexpected shift: Stella quite suddenly decides she does not want to study literature, let alone get a PhD. Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley – review 2013-05-01T11:00:02Z

That was when I began to really understand how many holes there are in the literature and how skewed a lot of it is, in my opinion. Charmaine Craig's mother, beauty queen and revolutionary, inspired her novel 'Miss Burma' 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Kunkel argues that none of this fudging really matters: Mitchell was an artist, he created “literature.” ‘Man in Profile’ stirs controversy over the work of a New Yorker great 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

We have many great works of architecture, art or literature created by the efforts of individuals as driven and destructive as our poor dean. Reading group: The Spire's many meanings 2013-04-15T10:34:02Z

The themes are similar, too: art, literature, travel, fate, houses, physical beauty and its perceived fading, and parenthood, described here as “the closest most people get to an opportunity for tyranny.” Rachel Cusk’s New Novel Turns Up the Heat at a Private Artist’s Retreat 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

The characters are drawn in the broad strokes you associate with children’s literature, which limits the actors. | 'War Horse': A Boy and His Steed, Far From Humane Society 2011-04-15T02:01:02Z

Label one end of the scale great literature, the other pulp . New pulp fictioneers are ready to rock'n'roll 2012-05-29T13:14:20Z

To generalize, women wrote about women and men, but there were more male writers and they mostly wrote about men—which means women’s stories are disproportionately excluded from the literature we respect the most. New Study Reveals Which Authors Have Ignored Women Most 2013-03-08T19:05:49Z

"It is heavily influenced by the nonsense tradition of English literature." John Lennon manuscripts, drawings to be sold at auction 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Many early pages chronicle the poet’s youthful Wanderjahre in Europe, but almost nothing is said about his 25 years as a Harvard professor of European languages and literatures. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

“Notable waters in literature, art and movies where our imaginations have gone swimming” could have been an appendix, or not there at all. Eat. Sleep. Swim. Repeat. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Through the 1950s and ’60s, he studied and taught Italian history and literature at schools in Naples, Italy. John H. Davis, Chronicler of Kennedys and Others, Dies at 82 2012-02-06T05:17:24Z

Panels at this year’s festival will address how literature can confront issues like climate change, immigration, gender equality, nationalism and the future of democracy. Writers Gather to Discuss the Role of Literature in Times of War and Isolation 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

At first delighted by her burgeoning skills and acuity, she soon realizes, by Googling the available literature at supercomputer swiftness, that she can’t control her new power — that “All things human are fading away.” REVIEW: I Love Lucy — and Luc, and Scarlett 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

And that doesn’t mean that the literature will become better. A Humorous Ukrainian Writer, With Nothing to Laugh About 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

She learned Ukrainian, practiced folk songs and studied the country’s poetry, history and literature with her father and grandmother. A Conductor on a Mission to Help Ukraine 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Barrière’s work is an omnivorous blend of visual art, theater, literature and music, of live and recorded performance, so it is only natural that he plays well with others. Music Review: Jean-Baptiste Barrière in Concert at Miller Theater 2014-03-31T21:41:56Z

In explaining the club’s purpose, the International Ultra Manly Book Club website makes explicit the notion that men take literature as seriously as women. Men Have Book Clubs, Too 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

That shift has already been articulated in literature this year, though nowhere as pointedly as in Machado’s stories. Carmen Maria Machado's 'Her Body and Other Parties' reclaims the female body in subversive, joyful ways 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

He wanted instead to write serious literature, and his work – perhaps more than anyone's – was key to this shift. Harvey Pekar, the American anti-hero who led a comic-book revolution 2010-07-15T10:13:00Z

The novel is escape literature in every sense. ?John Carter,? Based on ?Princess of Mars? 2012-03-04T23:25:48Z

Her husband, the explorer Jason, has transferred his affections to the daughter of the king of Corinth, leaving Medea to fester in grief and anger, and to plot literature’s most celebrated infanticide. On London Stages, Finding Something Fresh in Tragedy 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Britain’s attempt to define itself as a nation, to characterize its history and to choose its villains and heroes was a project that touched on politics, literature, science, warfare, the arts and social relations. Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z

At the moment, Fife does not expect the staff to shrink or the magazine’s focus on art, music, literature and performance to change. City Arts magazine launches crowdfunding to become independent; Stranger Genius Awards postponed again 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Take the newest addition to the literature of attention: “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” by Jenny Odell. Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One. 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

For there is real anxiety – on both sides of the Atlantic – about the role of literature in contemporary culture. A serious man 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z

No disrespect to breezy reads and classic Vines, but I'm reading actual literature again, books that make me work a little harder and think a little more deeply. My phone helped me fall in love with books again 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

Other sculptures in the presentation feature real and mythical creatures carved or made with a 3-D printer and which recall figures in historical Chinese art and literature. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

A group of us, upon realizing that no Australian writing was offered in our courses, started an informal night school, where we read the national literature, sitting in loose circles on folding chairs or couches. The Homegrown Language of Les Murray 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Image Awards honor diversity in the arts and outstanding achievements in film, television, music and literature. 'For Colored Girls' a big winner at Image Awards 2011-03-05T05:50:08Z

After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Hispanic languages and literatures from the Herzen State Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad, as it was then known, she tried to emigrate to the United States. Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

If she couldn’t appeal to his sense of loyalty to her, she begged on behalf of their daughter and even American literature. ‘The Dolphin Letters’ Shine Light on a Famous Marital and Literary Scandal 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

He recently won a Fulbright grant to pursue a doctorate in comparative literature. Mohsin Hamid's 'Exit West' imagines a new way out for refugees 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Its insistence on frugality, black dress code, continuous fight against temptations of the flesh, frequent scripture readings at the family table, and its punitive God—all contributed greatly to Dutch literature. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z

Inspired, she often said, by literature and art and by details of her own autobiography, she translated those elements into elliptical, impressionistic tableaus. Sally Gross, Choreographer of Minimalist Dances, Dies at 81 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

It's a great entrance, for one of literature and cinema's most fascinating recent creations, and Mara plays her like a wounded creature who's encased herself in armor. 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo': English version worth seeing 2011-12-20T00:19:04Z

Meanwhile, politicians and bureaucrats jockey for ideological advantage, cutting and slicing literature along ethnic, cultural and nationalistic lines. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The conversation between literature’s most famous spousal deserter and the nanny who was a mother both to her and to the children she abandoned 15 years ago, takes on the rhythm of sitcom repartee. Laurie Metcalf in 'Doll's House, Part 2': An acting marvel in one of the year's best plays 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

So when he died July 1, at age 76 — the news began making the rounds a day later — the world of children’s literature felt like a decidedly smaller place. Walter Dean Myers, multimillion-selling children’s author, dies at 76

Today, bibliotherapy takes many different forms, from literature courses run for prison inmates to reading circles for elderly people suffering from dementia. Is Reading the New Therapy? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

He thought that if he was going to explore the nature of consciousness through his literature, then the work would have to be, like consciousness itself, fragmentary, ambiguous and always in flux. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Why, after all, do we turn to art or literature? The implications of Banned Books Week 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

She was a musician who loved painting and literature. Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z

And the feeling was mutual: Trump often said that he thought the Enquirer deserved journalism’s highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize — something about as likely as Bill O’Reilly winning the Nobel Prize for literature. Perspective | Trump once wanted the National Enquirer to win a Pulitzer. Now it may prove his downfall. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

"When it comes to serious literature, the various parasites are now killing the host organism," he said. Eimear McBride named best new author 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

One of Poland's most acclaimed writers, her humane and often ironic poems won a wider audience in 1996 when she won the Nobel prize for literature. Last book of late Nobel poet hits stores in Poland 2012-04-20T11:46:11Z

There used to be, in antisemitic pamphlets of the 19th century, the claim that Jews had no organic connection to the language of their "host" nations and hence were unable to produce genuine literature. Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z

There’s a hundred times as much mothering literature, but it tends to come from the same scientific silos. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z

But this is still a landmark discovery for English literature – a third Shakespearean structure to add to the tourist map, alongside south London's Globe and Stratford. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-08T17:15:49Z

Ms. Angelou initially resisted the suggestion that she write her story, giving in only after an editor goaded her by suggesting that writing autobiography as literature was too difficult for anyone to do well. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86

Their writings help us see in different and remarkable ways the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots. Nicholas Royle's top 10 writers on the telephone 2010-10-06T09:25:00Z

Dr. Saffle and his brother Michael Saffle, a music historian at Virginia Tech, wrote a survey of the literature regarding the medical histories of prominent composers. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

And then, on the question of why now, why people are writing digital literature now… Actually, the field has origins beyond the current moment. After e-literature, there’s no going back 2012-10-29T11:30:00Z

But The Iraqi Christ also seems to belong with the literature of Latin America, likewise struggling with contesting cultures, political violence and overbearing religion. The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z

Why then this fury against French language and literature? Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Princess of Cleves 2011-03-23T09:30:01Z

The had a crucial role in shaping the origins and evolution not just of fantasy literature, but also of the realistic novel. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

The B.S.U.’s founding statement called for the admission of more black students, the hiring of black faculty, courses in black literature and history, and campus events to showcase black artists. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

“I was highly suspicious of this book when I first started it,” said Richard Howorth, the owner of Square Books in Oxford, Miss., and a revered authority on Southern literature. Bill Cheng’s Novel is ‘Southern Cross the Dog’ 2013-05-08T20:26:13Z

Flush, in my view, is given too little to say, and, unlike the best animals in world literature, he has a too small regard for the servant classes who give him his dinner. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

After months of suspense and typically inscrutable standoffishness, Bob Dylan, the elusive Nobel laureate, will finally accept his literature prize at a meeting with members of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm this weekend. Bob Dylan Will Receive His Nobel Prize While on Tour in Sweden 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Currently a research professor at Sussex University, Josipovici hopes the criticisms – to feature in a forthcoming book, What Ever Happened to Modernism? – will spark a wide-ranging debate on the assessment of modern English literature. Feted British authors are limited, arrogant and self-satisfied, says leading academic 2010-07-28T17:25:00Z

And if eating cocktail sausages from a coffin encourages more people to think about intricacies and implications of vampire literature, then that's OK with her. University conference sinks its teeth into vampire fiction 2010-04-05T23:05:00Z

Nancy Kline teaches 20th-century French literature in translation for the Bard Prison Initiative. A Lively, Fast-Paced Account of France’s Second Empire 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Number of Nobel Prize winners for literature who also have designed a welded sculptured entryway at MGM National Harbor. A telling set of numbers for a $1.4 billion casino facility 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

I'd also like to think that literature students were familiar enough with Shakespeare's plays to be able to write comfortably about them in exams, for example. Michael Gove is right about reading ? so fund humanities 2011-04-01T15:10:05Z

Before, the only way of escaping I knew of was through literature. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

Fortunately for world literature, Shakespeare’s company wasn’t closed down, even though it performed the play at the request of a few of the conspirators on the eve of the abortive coup known as Essex's Rebellion. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

The judge ruled that if Christian materials — bibles and other literature — were allowed to be disseminated, atheist literature should be allowed as well. Satanic Temple hands out activity books to schools in response to judicial ruling 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

According to the literature accompanying the exhibition, the first daguerreotypes of Amsterdam were taken in 1839. Amsterdam's Old Days, in Photos 2010-05-10T10:00:00Z

She also built a website devoted to classic women's literature called LiteraryLadiesGuide, and had two children. Writer Nava Atlas reflects on the (vegan) return of her cult-classic "Vegetariana" cookbook 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

“It combined musicality, it combined literature, it combined spectacle.” Truth, Lies and Chinese Art Inspire ‘a Puzzle Box of a Play’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The Academy by tradition announces the date for the literature prize separately from those for the sciences, whose winners will also be announced this week. Nobel Literature winner to be announced October 6 2011-10-03T08:58:03Z

"I don't know why it's a literary 'tradition' that cinema and literature clings to so dearly," she said in an interview with Salon. James Bond hasn't changed much, and neither have his problematic villains after 25 films 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lévy struggles to drag this conversation out of mud and self-pity, to discuss philosophy and literature and politics. Books of The Times: Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful 2011-01-11T22:06:40Z

With leisure time shrinking and the pandemic further blurring the boundaries between work and home, a podcast that rarely hits the five-minute mark may be as much time as many Americans can spare for literature. Ada Limón explores "what it looks like to have America in the room" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

She resumed her formal studies after the war in Polish literature and sociology at Krakow's Jagiellonian University, but never earned a degree. Poland's 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T20:32:13Z

Isabella was the sort of woman whom the period’s literature invariably depicted as a ruined, degraded, desperate wretch. “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z

To find her own equilibrium in parlous times, Sally Fischer, a Manhattan publicist in her 60s, turns not to literature, she said, but to vintage sitcoms. The Three A.M. Club 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

The adaption was inevitably going to lose some of the effect of Clarke’s novel, heavily footnoted and written in the style of 19th-century literature, giving it the unsettling feel of an unearthed occult document. Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Brings the Old-Time Magic 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“The autobiography of the emperor Nero’s mother, Agrippina,” Ms. Beard writes of the missing book, “must count as one of the saddest losses of classical literature.” Review: In ‘SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,’ Mary Beard Tackles Myths and More 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

As a piano student at the Moscow Conservatory in the 1950s, Kapustin immersed himself in the canonical piano literature. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

In this Sunday’s Book Review, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson considers the debt that Western literature owes to the Bible. ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: What Literature Owes the Bible 2011-12-23T17:45:38Z

In literature it makes no sense to talk of "a career" in the sense of a life that can be managed by the exercise of prudent thought. A literary career or a brilliant, successful one-off? Take your pick 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z

To judge from interviews both at Tanglewood and in Lucerne and from his first season of Boston Symphony programming, Mr. Nelsons’s tastes and proclivities are comprehensive within the standard literature. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The orphan in children's literature," he argues, "allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. Brian Selznick: how Scorsese's Hugo drew inspiration from his magical book 2012-02-11T19:26:44Z

The essays in this series hold that American literature is imprinted by belief: freighted by ideas about morality, justice and standards for living that are derived from the nation’s Christian underpinnings. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

It sold six million copies in the United States, becoming a staple of school curriculums and a classic of Holocaust literature. Art Spiegelman on Life With a ‘500-Pound Mouse Chasing Me’ 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

The other competitive prize Wednesday went to William Alexander, whose "Goblin Secrets" won for young people's literature. Erdrich wins National Book Award for fiction 2012-11-15T04:18:08Z

The Wake Forest University professor Susan Harlan will answer that question with a lecture on the relationship between comedy and skulls in Renaissance art and literature. Around Town for Aug. 12-18 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

I don't think it's a conscious, hostile act, but an unconscious feeling that seriousness in literature belongs to men, not women. Siri Hustvedt, writer – portrait of the artist 2012-07-10T17:11:10Z

A history of the humanities in the 20th century could be chronicled in "isms" — formalism, Freudianism, structuralism, postcolonialism — grand intellectual cathedrals from which assorted interpretations of literature, politics and culture spread. Digital keys for unlocking the humanities' riches 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z

The implication of that question points to where efforts to infuse music with literature often go down. Robbie Fulks on how not to be “a guy in his 50s singing about sex or good times or even the opposite, about married contentedness” 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

“Fashion people followed the rules more than the book people,” she added, which makes sense given that fashion is a largely conformist undertaking while literature depends for its existence on unruly types. Inside the Insta-Cover Games 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

My chosen main subject for my masters was demon parent figures in gothic literature in the 18th century. Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy 2011-08-12T06:28:31Z

Over the span of five years, students at East Jersey State Prison, where Hedges teaches courses in drama and literature, wrote a sold-out play that channels the pain, grief and hope of incarcerated life. Newly Published, From the Extraterrestrial to East Jersey State Prison 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

While I’d want copies of the Bible, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare and Proust — the biggies of western literature — I’m too much of a sybarite to restrict myself to classics. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

This blog has been admittedly slow to engage with the gender politics of literature, but this challenge – what about the women ? – is self-evidently a fair question. Are these the 50 most influential books by women? 2013-02-11T12:46:21Z

I was struck by the recurrent image of sleeping women and vigilantly wakeful ones — like Penelope — in literature and art. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Tossing and Turning in ‘Insomnia’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

In literature, it shaped the work of Günter Grass, especially, and the late Christa Wolf. David Bowie's exceptional late style 2013-01-14T13:21:22Z

My work focuses on Latin American literature and films, particularly how they represent ethical issues about violence and human rights. Democracies don’t bounce back post-dictatorship. "Argentina, 1985" shows how justice looks afterward 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

Illiterate women went on providing the staple of the repertoire at the same time as educated people were turning their own variants of the tales into literature. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z

This is the crux of Borges’s philosophy of literature. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

How would America find its own voice, its own form, a literature that was unique, indigenous, and not just aping European and particularly British literature? Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

He also dips into history, mythology and literature as the poems point, again and again, to the inescapable intersection of personal and political concerns. Best new poetry for February 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

As I read the existing literature, I became increasingly frustrated that there didn't seem to be many answers. Scientists and their emotions: the highs ... and the lows 2013-02-10T00:04:02Z

Its winners are a roll call of the great and the good in British children's literature, from Arthur Ransome to Elizabeth Goudge and Penelope Lively. Patrick Ness wins Carnegie medal for second year running 2012-06-14T12:01:17Z

Mr. Rosenbaum doesn’t engage at length with the body of literature of nuclear peril, but attaches this subject to his own obsessions, notably Hitler. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, lauded for creating "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Some lyrics from Bob Dylan songs 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the message of Lady Chatterley's Lover, half a century after the trial, is that literature in itself does no harm at all. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z

I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z

Sure, often literature is analysis after the event, as Doris Lessing wisely pointed out. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Sahota's own novel would be impressive whoever had written it, but given his lack of early exposure to literature, it's nothing short of extraordinary. Britain's cultural debutantes 2011-01-16T00:04:11Z

The second was a love of English culture and literature, after his father started him on thrice-weekly English lessons. “Romeo and Juliet” director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

Shivani is also promising to share his thoughts about the most underrated American writers today, and is planning similar lists for the past century, and for global literature. Who are the most overrated contemporary writers in the world? 2010-08-10T16:11:00Z

A day later “Dying, with a lifetime of literature” was published. Thank you, Lynette Williamson: An essay on death and acceptance arrives in time 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dylan’s place in literature — the way he drew his very individual, paradigm-shifting radicalism from folk music’s collective preservation of tradition — was clear long before the literary establishment deigned to recognize him. Bob Dylan: America’s Great One-Man Songbook 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Bakhtin and Benjamin's assessments of literature are obviously tied to the context of their lives: when Bakhtin was studying Dostoyevsky's novels and emphasising the individual, he had just returned from exile imposed by Stalin. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z

We usually memorialize 1968 for its mass demonstrations and outbursts of violence, but “Anniversaries” is everything that the standard literature of that year is not. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

The further literature is driven to the outskirts of the culture, the more it is cherished as a sanctuary from everything coarse, shallow and meretricious in that culture. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

It’s not clear when bibliotherapy first appeared in the psychological literature, but psychologists didn’t invent the concept. Your Therapist’s Prescription? The Right Book. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

He graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut after spending his senior year studying literature at the Sorbonne in Paris and was hired by Holt in 1950. Robert Lescher, Literary Agent, Is Dead at 83 2012-12-07T02:40:48Z

Adonis was awarded Germany's prestigious Goethe Prize for literature in May. Poets lead running for Nobel Literature prize 2011-10-04T15:06:59Z

The analog world, with its hard-bound literature and daily papers, is fundamental in this parable about the lure of digital technology. ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’ Review: Are You Still There? 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The Informer occupies a position of iconic significance in Irish literature. The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z

I think many writers and readers adhere to a hard line in literature between fantasy and realism, a border that’s never made much sense to me. Writing to genre stinks: Two debut novelists on the hard line between fantasy and realism — and why it doesn’t make sense 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

On Monday, reflecting his accomplishments as both author and educator, Yang will be named the new national ambassador for young people’s literature. Yang is named national ambassador for young people’s literature 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

The sparely written narrative was based closely on his years growing up comfortably in Southern California, his studies in history and literature at Williams College in Massachusetts and his disorienting return home. Charles Webb, author of ‘The Graduate,’ dies in England 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

As if a good grade in literature were not about quiet reading and contemplation, but about public speaking. The unapologetic introvert: I had to leave the U.S. to stop pretending to be an extrovert 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to replicate that experience, because in literature in general, there aren’t many Native American children.” With ‘Thunder Boy Jr.,’ Sherman Alexie hopes to help correct a problem 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

They have been working together through the Rolex mentoring scheme, which operates across music, literature, film, dance, theatre, art and architecture. Gilberto Gil: from 60s activism to Womad 2013 2013-07-17T18:00:00Z

Around the same time he wrote “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Baldwin was working on “Little Man, Little Man,” an enigmatic picture book pitched halfway between children’s and adult literature. What to Read Before or After You See ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The result is that her abuser — a 34-year-old modern literature professor called “Master, or Master Aikens, or M,” is the flimsiest part of “His Favorites,” a shadow rather than a substantive presence. The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

They are what Ezra Pound was talking about when he said that "great literature is news that remains news". 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z

All in all, Schwartz’s biography adds importantly to the literature of the utterly remarkable men and women who opened up nuclear physics to the world. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

He knew something, too, about the contemporary literature of the sport. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

He built complex arguments about how these forms were vastly more than untutored improvisation, and about how music allowed black people to tell their story in ways that literature often could not. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

In a world where anyone with a blog and an ebook is a writer, putting yourself up on the pedestal of great literature is a good way to get yourself knocked down again. New pulp fictioneers are ready to rock'n'roll 2012-05-29T13:14:20Z

What takes our breath away in literature is not the new but the encounter with what has been silently known. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

That instinct to put the nuance and complexity of literature first has created fictions that will last. Llosa's life should not eclipse his work 2010-10-07T16:30:00Z

I wanted to do justice to this richness, and also, when starting the book I could not identify some arbitrary point when travel literature “in the normal sense” was born. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z

It’s also indicative of a general tendency in literature. N. K. Jemisin on Diversity in Science Fiction and Inspiration From Dreams 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Here, perhaps, she gets at the heart of the matter, for this is what literature necessarily does. Wendy Rawlings and the memoir she can't write 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

After college she earned a master’s degree in English literature, and discovered as a teaching assistant that she hated getting up in front of a class to speak. An ‘Impossible Dream’ Comes True, Again, for Marylouise Burke in ‘Epiphany’ 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

The word “Wikipedia” in the course title seemed to attract an unusual preponderance of science majors for a seminar in comparative literature. Hacking the Humanities 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

And I didn't say it to him at the time, but actually my dissertation was going to be about temporality in ethnicity and 20th century literature. How cookbook writer Eric Kim found home through Korean-American food 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

A friend of mine, Andy, has devoted his life to literature, his enormous cranium swollen with learning. Stewart Lee: my life on the shelf 2010-07-31T23:07:00Z

Arthur Miller's Crucible is different in that it is real "literature," but there is still a social-studies element. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The awards, sponsored by the book review magazine Kirkus Reviews, are given in three categories: fiction, nonfiction and young readers' literature. These authors are in the running for the $50,000 Kirkus Prize book awards 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

The beauty of literature teaches “that the trauma you go through can, if anything, prepare you to understand someone else.” Review | In the story of a mass shooting, ‘Bloomland’ reveals the bloody tapestry of a beleaguered nation 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

That, as he understood and continually sought to articulate, is the burden not just of language, of literature, but also, fundamentally, of life. Considering George Orwell on the anniversary of his death 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. Morrison said: “It may be that the academies will catch up with the artists who write literature, and it won’t have these nationalistic categories, and so on. So you’ll have literature.” Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Much of Will’s modus operandi mirrors a version of romance so many people have been conditioned to follow, whether by way of literature or romantic movies. New year, new "You": Netflix's stalker drama seeks romantic nirvana in a twisted Season 2 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

She added that it was hard to “overstate” the significance of the International Booker for the country’s literature scene. This Bulgarian Writer’s Books Bend Time 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

The literary efforts of this nationalistic movement were, paradoxically, influenced by French, Russian and English literature. Literature does not stop at national borders 2013-02-27T13:59:46Z

Mr. Said was also a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia. Spare Times for Feb. 1-7 2013-01-31T23:16:48Z

In the many volumes of literature on various addictions, shame is the underlying common denominator. Sex in trees 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

Charles Montgomery, an English professor at Dongguk University, who runs ktlit.com, a Web site about Korean literature, pointed out that the Swedish Academy tends to favor certain types of writers. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

These works tell us a lot about how Ms. Castoro thought and her generous understanding of Minimal and Conceptual art’s rules and systems, which for her were of a piece with life and literature. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Inc., a nonprofit organization founded in 1985 to promote a better understanding and appreciation of his life and literature. Mass. city to hold expanded Jack Kerouac festival 2010-09-27T22:44:00Z

Do your events, as opposed to literature tents at more mainstream festivals such as Glastonbury, create a better platform for aspiring spoken word artists? Arts head: Melanie Abrahams, founder of Tilt and Renaissance one 2013-06-25T10:40:51Z

So there’s plenty of dialogue about wrongness in the philosophical literature, but very little in contemporary public life.” ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Kathryn Schulz and the Rightness of Wrongness 2011-03-25T16:23:32Z

Shakespeare, hands down, which might seem a bit elementary since he occupies such a center stage in literature. Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

But poorer sections of the city did not fare particularly badly in the literature. Stanford Literary Lab Maps ‘Emotions in Victorian London’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

You can easily find grainy footage of him performing two-finger push-ups for an audience at a martial arts tournament, or peruse an extensive analytical literature devoted to his legendary one-inch punch. How Bruce Lee Exploded a Stereotype With a One-Inch Punch 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

But she was a romantic at heart and her life’s grand passion was literature — worth all the poverty, sacrifice and burned bridges. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

In this very specific sense, Wallace may be the closest thing to a method actor in American literature, which I cannot imagine was without its subtle traumas. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

He majored in literature at Duke University, and went on to pursue a master’s and doctorate at Oxford. Your Book Editor Just Snagged Your Spot on the Best-Seller List 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

“I wanted to go to Oxford and read English literature, philosophy, and comparative religion. That was my plan,” she said. She’s Marianne Faithfull, Damn It. And She’s (Thankfully) Still Here. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Symbolizing death and decay but also life and growth; the ideal setting for romance or a character’s worst day, rain is one of literature’s great workhorses. Woody Allen’s romanticized rain (and Hemingway, and Toni Morrison and James Joyce) 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Yet for all this sorrow and anguish, which led Henry James to speak of Turgenev's collections as "agglomerations of gloom", his stories pulse with a life as vivid as any in literature. A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z

I don’t think there’s been a lot of great literature about graffiti. KAWS Looks to the Fringes for Inspiration 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Do any writers bring an especially strong sense of fashion or style to their literature? Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

It is a homage to the north, and northern culture – its food, of course, as well as its music, its literature and its landscape. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'We're not the big buddies people think we are' 2010-10-26T19:29:00Z

As a student at Keio University in Tokyo, where he studied literature, he took private lessons in piano, music theory and Western compositional technique. Isao Tomita, Widely Considered the Father of Japanese Electronic Music, Dies at 84 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

And this leads Hunka and Croggan to an interesting discussion about how you define and, more importantly, how you read literature in the first place. Noises off: On literature and the living wage 2010-06-08T16:18:00Z

She said the official panel, whose 10 members are chosen by government ministries and agencies, is not versed in "literature or aesthetics." Turkish state pans Beat Generation author 2011-05-16T11:46:04Z

To accompany his essay about how fantasy literature is transforming the pop-culture landscape, he’s also named the five most influential fantasy books ever written. The 5 Greatest Fantasy Novels of All Time 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

That might sound intimidatingly cerebral, but as this year’s five finalists demonstrate, criticism is one of the most vital and expansive categories of literature. The National Book Critics Circle finalists in criticism award 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

The National Book Foundation, which presents the awards, announced the two lists Thursday after revealing the young people’s literature and translation nominees the day before. Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ on National Book Awards longlist 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

It’s done something far, far more important: It’s made writing feel like something that’s achievable and, in the process, returned literature to a place of pop art possibility that it hasn’t been in for years. NaNoWriMo: Is National Novel Writing Month a Literary Threat or Menace? 2012-11-07T13:00:11Z

“I founded Well-Read Black Girl in 2015 to serve as a one-of-a kind affirming space for Black women to encounter literature and engage in critical discourse with one another,” Edim said in a statement. Well-Read Black Girl to help launch new literary series 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

He is, without doubt, one the loneliest characters in literature: a writer condemned to be himself. Final Demands by Frederic Raphael 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z

The Nobel for literature is most helpful when it brings someone deserving to the global audience’s attention. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Brennan teaches humanities at the University of Minnesota and writes often about comparative literature and cultural theory. A Study of Edward Said, One of the Most Interesting Men of His Time 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Woodson, who won the National Book Award for young people's literature for her book "Brown Girl Dreaming," is African American. Daniel Handler announces donation to diverse children's book campaign 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. Meaker attended the Stuart Hall School in Staunton, Va., then studied at Vermont Junior College in Montpelier before earning a bachelor’s degree in literature at the University of Missouri. Marijane Meaker, 95, Who Helped Launch Genre of Lesbian Fiction, Dies 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

They are a saxophonist whose instrument is western and decadent, a lawyer who thinks that defendants should be allowed to plead their cases, and a professor who refuses to renounce western literature. Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

Grief, melancholy, missed chances for personal happiness often seem to be contemporary literature’s concept of evil. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

In addition to the musical performances, staged in Brooklyn Bazaar’s second floor, Black Flags also showcased various types of literature, in a ground-floor room. Heavy Metal Confronts Its Nazi Problem 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

The canon of African-American literature is well established. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

In literature and art, it's the same, but at the time, specifically in the political sense, we were a generation that believed in collective action and changing of society. HBO's doc "Exterminate All the Brutes" asks: "When was American great — and who was it great for?" 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Men in priestly garb distributed anti-blasphemy literature, women held placards, bagpipes sounded and then, inexplicably, a brass band played America the Beautiful. The Testament of Mary 2013-04-23T16:16:00Z

“Ireland uses its remarkable pre-eminence in literature and art to sell itself around the world,” Dr. Paterson said. After Outcry, Irish Government Buys Yeats’s Artifacts 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

The surrealists used poetry, literature and the visual arts to depict the outer reaches of erotic fantasy. Perspective | This painting might be sexually disturbing. But that’s no reason to take it out of a museum. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Grove, who lives in Boston, studied English literature in college and later went back to school to study Latin American history. ‘Glass Sentence’s’ S.E. Grove on traveling the world, and creating ones through literature

Tranter is also linked to the chutney king, who hires him to provide a crash course in British literature so that the magnate will feel comfortable talking books with the Queen. 'A Week in December': Faulks' novel of 7 London lives over 7 days 2010-03-24T23:34:00Z

Partly inspired by this, I've been looking into the literature of this traumatic period. The best boring books 2011-01-04T13:05:36Z

Dieter has made his life’s work the study of the pop-music genre that gives the show its title, having acquired a “Ph.D. in literature with the focus on the power ballad as epic verse.” | 'Power Balladz': Head-Banging Anthems at Midtown Theater 2010-08-20T02:01:00Z

"The Little Mermaid" is explicit about how humans hurt the ecosystem, a critique made by Black mermaids in older folk tales and recent literature inspired by them. Why "The Little Mermaid" and "Barbie" made 2023 the dead girl summer 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z

It still amazes me that for the amount of Latinos and Spanish speakers in the U.S., there is still a huge gap of services, literature, and LIS professionals in libraries to better serve them. Librarians, librarians, librarians! 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

"Their re-telling and reinterpretation is part of the lifeblood of literature." Poet Laureate ballet to tour UK 2012-08-14T10:45:00Z

Your essays seem to mourn the fact that literature doesn’t have the prominence it used to. Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Committed throughout her life to promoting Italian poetry and literature, she always sought to broaden the depictions of her people in popular culture beyond “Sopranos”-style stereotypes, while giving voice to those previously unheard. Helen Barolini, Chronicler of Italian American Women, Dies at 97 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

While clothing is optional, literature, it appears, is not. Three New York City Waterfront Hotspots This Summer 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The British writer was awarded her damehood by Prince Charles in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Friday for her services to literature. Hilary Mantel is made a dame 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

His neon-lighted scenes emerged from the Midwestern wing of the Harlem Renaissance, as the African American community asserted itself nearly a century ago as a major creative force in art, literature and music. Artist Archibald J. Motley Jr.'s Jazz Age imagery on display at LACMA 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

The closest antecedent to edge may be noir, the movement in literature, especially detective literature, and film that was ascendant after World War II — movies like "The Big Sleep," "Double Indemnity" and "Kiss of Death." A race to the finish in the age of edge 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

She discusses feminism, urban life, literature, friendship and more. Spare Times for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

In “The Death of Jesus,” Simón and David argue less about numbers and more about literature, specifically “Don Quixote.” J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

"We realised that there wasn't much literature on voids," Metzger says of that show. Gustav Metzger: 'Destroy, and you create' 2012-11-26T20:00:08Z

But American literature tells a different story — or rather, a great many different stories. Writers who show us who we are 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

The world is a dark and ugly place, a lot of that ugliness and injustice is present in Africa, but we don't turn to literature to confirm that. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo – review 2013-06-20T09:00:00Z

They were my first understanding of what literature can do, and how strongly it can affect you, letting you experience, safely, bereavement, grief, learning to live again. Why couldn't I quote Charlotte's Web on stage? 2011-03-03T16:30:56Z

After all, who better to identify the most outstanding books of our time – the titles most likely to endure – than those most deeply immersed in literature? Why we need the Folio prize for fiction 2013-03-14T17:51:36Z

She went to Arizona State University on an academic scholarship, and on her first day in an English literature class, her professor stunned her by asking, “Can you read?” Heard the One About the Disabled Muslim Comic From Jersey? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

And while he sets out logically to convince us of his argument, this isn’t exactly tract literature either: credit him with making room for doubt, too. ArtsBeat: Graphic Book Best Sellers: A Treatise on Sex Workers 2011-05-27T17:18:31Z

For each year he discussed, he divided events into categories like literature, crime and everyday life. James Trager Dies at 86; Author of ?The People?s Chronology? 2012-03-05T00:56:20Z

Frankenstein first seals and then reneges on the bargain, so earning the creature's curse, possibly the most chilling in all literature: "I shall be with you on your wedding night." Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z

He was so enraptured with Iceland that he taught himself the language in order to translate the literature. William Morris 2010-09-07T22:29:00Z

If you can think of other examples of books given as presents in literature, please offer them as gifts below. ArtsBeat Blog: The Perilous Art of Giving Books 2012-01-04T21:59:46Z

First, it pitches children's literature, novels, debut novels, biography and poetry against each other – notoriously, presenting judges with a marked challenge. Who should win the Costa? 2011-01-25T16:23:35Z

Needless to say, the works of children's literature that enthralled me were Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Gulliver's Travels. Big on littleness 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

A third young man, overweight and constipated, has a graduate degree in Native American literature but no job prospects — a living symbol of the moribund plight of Indian culture in the United States. Review | What does it mean to be Native American? A new novel offers a bracing answer. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

The next step was to meet Ruth Wilson, who plays Mrs Coulter, one of the best evil characters in children’s literature. Dafne Keen of His Dark Materials: 'Lyra taught me to not follow rules' 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Working with the literature and linguistics academics Jonathan Hope and Sam Hollands, we've been using computers to search millions of words in texts pre-dating Shakespeare. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

Nelson implicitly argues against that sort of litmus-test critique in the way he questions but ultimately defends the value of literature, dramatic or otherwise. Review: Apple-Picking Time Again, in ‘And So We Come Forth’ 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

“As soon as we sat down and started talking about what he had been through and what he still felt about literature, I just knew,” Ms. Walsh said. A Book Agent?s Descent and Ascent From the Ashes 2010-05-28T22:45:00Z

From book to book, he absorbs the reader into a singular territory in which life and literature are a shared enterprise; once you learn the handshake, you’re part of his club. Review: Enrique Vila-Matas Plots His Own Awakening in ‘The Illogic of Kassel’ 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

As iconoclasts I think they at least have enough of an understanding of literature and culture to respect the form, if not the content. 'If I had known Richey Edwards there's no way I could have written it' 2010-09-20T14:01:00Z

The Kirkus Prize finalists were announced Tuesday, with six titles each in three categories — fiction, nonfiction and young readers literature. Kirkus announces its finalist lineup, and book prize season is looking good 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Yet, literature as consolation is a lovely concept, what books do you read or recommend to bring comfort? Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z

Or maybe they’re attending a remedial literature course, for if summer book advertising is any indication, men don’t read fiction. What exactly is a beach read anyway? Summery, sexy — or sexist? 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The awards are presented by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit established in 1976 by Ishmael Reed to promote and popularize multicultural literature. Akhtar, Ehrenreich among winners of American Book Awards 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

For writers like us, raised nearly feral, far from the centers of literature and art, it takes someone to light up and nod encouragement. How getting caught with two cans of Olympia turned teenage Susan Straight into a writer 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The scholar was known for her works on ancient Greek literature, tragedy and thought. French classics scholar Jacqueline de Romilly dies 2010-12-19T18:31:05Z

The groom’s mother is the international baccalaureate program coordinator, and both a theory-of-knowledge and an English language and literature teacher at the Amman National School, a private school there. Anna Meacham, Said Nashashibi 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

All my life I’d been imagining the movie business and literature in strict—irreconcilable, in fact—opposition. How to avoid writing an awful screenplay 2013-04-22T22:05:00Z

More generally, is literature a civilizing force; does reading books make us more moral? What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

In literature, because of the scale, you can shift tones and atmospheres. Another Hike on the Moors for ?Jane Eyre? 2011-03-05T04:23:01Z

Has a work of literature ever affected your policy positions? Bill Clinton: By the Book 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

No more so than with Cromwell, one of literature’s great ambiguous characters. Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

There was a time we could look to movies, music and literature to hold an unflattering mirror up to society and point out the flaws. After Mad Men and Breaking Bad, what’s next for The Great American Drama? 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

It helped him win the Nobel prize in literature in 1958. Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas wanted Doctor Zhivago movie rights 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

I always loved my English courses in high school and I remember in 10th grade deciding that I wanted to be a literature professor. How cookbook writer Eric Kim found home through Korean-American food 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

And yet, for all the barbs aimed at Amazon, the main theme of the evening was the power of literature as a transformative force. 2014 National Book Awards go to Phil Klay, Evan Osnos, Ursula Le Guin 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

At least the readers who have been inspired to buy Hardy's novel will have the pleasure of a work of literature that takes sexual hypocrisy seriously. Fifty Shades of Grey's nod to Tess is a mark of guilt 2012-07-24T14:34:36Z

We can easily envisage an owner owning a manuscript while we collectively own and know the piece of literature it contains. Owning manuscripts is one thing: owning the contents is quite another 2010-07-23T14:19:00Z

Carol Helen Hart was born in San Francisco on March 27, 1940, and grew up in a home filled with literature if not traditions of cooking. Carol Field, author of celebrated Italian cookbooks, dies at 76 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

But one scene is hers alone, and it reads simultaneously like a defense of an underestimated piece of literature and Gerwig’s personal challenge to conventional notions of what’s worthy, compelling and inherently cinematic. Can real men love ‘Little Women’? Greta Gerwig thinks they should. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

They constitute, to my mind, some of the richest and deepest meditations on art, beauty, mortality and subjectivity in Western literature. Review | Two centuries after John Keats’s death, his famous odes are still sparking new discussions 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

On Jan. 29 Applegate’s book won the Newbery Medal at the convention, given annually to the book deemed the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature. Notes from all over: from the American Library Association to Queen Anne 2013-02-01T23:56:40Z

The language can be arcane, and the literary satire is accessible to only a handful of Renaissance literature scholars. Shakespeare's 'Love's Labor's Lost': Kathleen Marshall directs a winner at the Old Globe 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

In an interview last year, Knausgaard asserted the importance, in literature, of not fulfilling expectations. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

They also feature in literature and movies, probably more than mountains do: Mann’s “Death in Venice” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is the Night” flash immediately before the eyes. ‘The Last Resort’ Interrogates the Beach While Enjoying It 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Magic is in the air at the British Library here — specifically the magical world of one of the most famous characters in modern literature, Harry Potter. The magic that inspired Harry Potter on display at the British Library 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

At the time, he was obsessed with absurdist writers and figured that in children’s literature, that style of writing was par for the course. Louis Sachar returns to wacky Wayside School more than 40 years after ‘Sideways Stories’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

As the Times critic Dwight Garner put it, the first 100 pages alone are “among the more memorable in recent American literature.” New in Paperback: ‘Klara and the Sun’ and ‘The Committed’ 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Scholars of Irish writing have hailed it as “a masterpiece” and “one of the most outstanding works in contemporary European literature.” The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Arriving in Los Angeles from the Ivy League East Coast decades later, Paul Monette wrote a different literature of displacement. To write and die in L.A. 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

We found manual clickity-clack typewriters and old books on shelves, and icons of Southern literature on walls: Truman Capote, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty. New Orleans’ offbeat charms are showcased in these off-the-beaten-path destinations 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

The Newbery is handed out by the American Library Association and considered the highest award for children's literature. Kwame Alexander wins Newbery Medal 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

What is the line between fact and ficiton, we considered, and what are the truths that only literature tells? Scenes from the Brooklyn Book Festival 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

When cookbook collectors or obsessive readers of food literature want to find obscure gems or culinary heirlooms, they hit up Noe Valley’s Omnivore Books. | T's Picks, Part One 2010-12-10T19:30:00Z

"That's part of why I'm really happy to join the fair, because this is drawing attention to the importance of Spanish literature." Spanish-language literary festival back in L.A. after year's hiatus 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The readership for foreign literature is not very big here, and Chinese people are mostly unfamiliar even with writers like Salinger and Updike. Granta Expands Its Foreign Editions 2012-09-03T19:50:24Z

Mystery Train” is as much about American art, literature, politics, manners and morals as it is about rock music. Just a Book? No, More Like a Trusty Companion 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

With an award of $100,000, the prize is among the most lucrative in literature. Alice Notley wins $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

The recessionary 1970s, for a long time derided culturally, in retrospect produced darkling riches across the board: in film, theater, music, television, fashion, dance, literature and art. Culture of Recession? Or Vice Versa? 2010-12-17T14:43:26Z

A believer that literature allowed him to say what would be censored otherwise, Fuentes also was the subject of censorship. Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies 2012-05-15T19:31:10Z

Today her influence spans literature, genres and media. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

The shortlists for the 2015 Best Translated Book Awards were announced Tuesday at Three Percent, the website of the program in international literature at the University of Rochester in New York. Best Translated Book Awards announces shortlist 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Earhart used words to challenge traditional thinking about women’s roles and turned the spotlight on literature that left women out of the story. Amelia Earhart’s long-hidden poems reveal an enigma’s inner thoughts 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The Brontë sisters, of course, grew up to write some of the most lasting novels in English literature. The teeny tiny Bronte books 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

He would turn this area into an open foyer that the literature describes as a "Forum." Frank Gehry's Philly museum design takes on the "Rocky" steps 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

"East Africa was full of that mix and I then moved to West Africa, which was colonial, but burgeoning with independence ideas, a new modernity being built, new ideas about music, life and literature." David Adjaye's African architecture inspiration 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

The intellectual project of the book, as she sets it out, is to create a narrative about recovery that is as powerful as the fictional representations of alcoholism in literature. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

The son of a Chicago tailor, he joined the R.O.T.C. and went to Ohio Wesleyan University, and after graduating in 1953 with a degree in literature, he entered the Air Force. 2010-01-22T22:43:00Z

Or is this dismayingly erratic yet so frequently illuminating text exactly what it was when its author laid down the burden of his oracular vision of our literature? Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

Do you think your work is part of a trend toward darkness in children's literature? Edward Carey discusses his gothic adventure, 'Heap House' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

After graduating from Nanyang University in 1968 with a degree in English language and literature, he found work as press attaché at the French Embassy in Singapore. A Multifaceted Singaporean Painter Breaks Barriers 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Coover reports from an outpost of what Barth called, in a well-known essay, “the literature of exhaustion.” Experiments Succeed — and Fail — Spectacularly in Robert Coover’s Lab 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Q. Is there a line between children’s literature and grown-up books? The Child in Tomi Ungerer, Evident in His Books, Remains Undimmed 2011-06-28T12:00:00Z

You write about people who have the power to change others’ lives by wiping out and changing data, which seems a relatively new development in literature — Margaret Atwood on our real-life dystopia: “What really worries me is creeping dictatorship” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

Cinema literature, and then certain novelists that I fell in love with. The Visionaries: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own 2012-12-19T13:00:00Z

As a teenager, he stopped engaging with the language and then went to Edinburgh University to study English literature. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

"Showa" is literature, illustrated or not, at its finest: a story that sweeps you off your feet only to find, when you return to Earth, that nothing looks quite the same. Shigeru Mizuki's 'Showa' draws a graphic portrait of Japan 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

“Some of the greatest literature of the past 50, 60 years was written in that house,” Mr. Harris said, and we gaped. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

As an art form film is closer to music than to literature. Letters: All About Plot 2010-04-15T15:40:00Z

A magazine assignment steers her to what became a kind of narrative therapy, a meditation on pain as seen by art, literature, philosophy, religion and science. Books of The Times: Melanie Thernstrom?s ?Pain Chronicles?: The Cures and the Myths 2010-08-19T22:42:00Z

What makes a novel, or any other piece of writing, “literature”? There are at least two ways to answer that question. “The Fault in Our Stars” has been unfairly bashed by critics who don’t understand it 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Although “The Testaments” is an exciting thriller that wraps up many questions for fans of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” it is not a particularly impressive work of literature on its own. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share the 2019 Booker Prize 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

“Atwood deserves recognition as a tireless and unselfish cultural ambassador,” says Russell Brown, co-editor of the Oxford University Press’ anthology of Canadian literature. Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

Professor Bloom was ultimately both optimistic, in a narrow sense, and pessimistic, in a much broader one, about the durability of great literature. Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

This, I think, would plant the seeds for a lifelong passion for reading far more effectively than compulsory readings of even the greatest literature. British Nuns, General Motors and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

In these parallel studies, Stableford argues for national differences in the American, British and French traditions of fantastic literature. How great science fiction works 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Animals also entered Japanese artistic culture through poetry and literature, which is perhaps the easiest entree for visitors who aren’t steeped in Japanese religions or culture. Review | Cute puppies and octopus sex: A Japanese art exhibition reveals our fascination with animals 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

In the medieval west, dragons feature both in literature and in political history and prophecy. An introduction to the stories and British history that inspired the beasts of "House of the Dragon" 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

"The Satanic Verses" wasn't the first – and won't be the last – novel to provoke the rage of a fanatic who has no grasp of literature's nuances. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

Then, about the fact that the wise man just gives an "example", and that the example becomes a commandment: that opens a debate on the notion of exemplarity and metalanguage in literature. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z

The latter reacts towards her with a mixture of lust and pity, bragging that he “sat up half the night discussing literature and life with a beautiful, half-naked blonde”. Dorothy Malone obituary 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

“Each thing feeds another -- working with a visual artist invokes music, dance connects with opera, opera connects with theater, theater connects with poetry, literature and film -- those things are constantly swirling.” Pierre Audi Is Set to Become Artistic Director of Park Avenue Armory 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

One never knows how one might contribute to literature. Perspective | What’s the best way to tour a city? A book critic stumbles onto the answer. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

It’s with exhilaration, then, that one hails Martin Puchner’s book, which asserts not merely the importance of literature but its all-importance. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

My personal preference would be to develop blended courses that combine literature, history, government, and philosophy. Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

Many potential castaways would immediately grab James Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson,” probably the most entertaining work of nonfiction in English literature. Review | ‘The Club’ spotlights the stars of 18th-century British culture — and invites some new members 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

This ambitious novel soars up through the canopy of American literature and remakes the landscape of environmental fiction. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

Ballet straddles the world of music, literature, art and performance. Game Theory: Considering Video Games as Ballet 2012-12-26T18:28:27Z

He has published poetry and children’s literature, and mounted shows of his paintings. Paul McCartney Composes Work for City Ballet 2011-02-23T23:05:59Z

Throughout his career, Mr. Kurtag, who speaks six languages, has made music out of the literature he loves. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Sanora Babb, with whom Ellison had a brief but passionate affair in the early 1940s, affords one of the few occasions for a literary exchange with a woman writer about literature and politics. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Reveal a Complex Philosopher of Black Expression 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

We need genuine education that is personal, creative, demanding and filled, as literature is, with useful equipment for the inner life. The Reader Organisation: a mutual improvement society for modern times 2012-06-27T11:41:13Z

Neither of these books is obscure, but the literature on Nixon and Watergate is so vast that plenty of readers may not have caught up with them. ArtsBeat: Thomas Mallon on the Fact and Fiction of 'Watergate' 2012-02-22T16:00:18Z

The program enabled him to combine coursework in literature, music, French and philosophy and to study with the prominent critic R. P. Blackmur. The Restless, Eclectic and Contradictory Passions of Edward Said 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Instead, serious literature is seen as hifalutin and exclusive. Is the Booker a barometer of the best literature? 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

This is the creative license that makes imaginative literature possible. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Other talks will examine the series’ effect on popular culture, the process for translating the books from British English into American English and the history of children’s literature. New-York Historical Society Announces Harry Potter Events 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

His bookshelf was typical for a student — biochemistry tomes and classic literature like Don Quixote and Hamlet — plus more revealing choices like Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers.  Breaking Amish: One Ex-Follower’s True Story of Moving to the Big Apple 2012-09-09T12:00:38Z

“It wasn’t difficult to hear that in movies or in literature, but in pop songwriting, it was uncommon.” ‘Guyville’ at 25: Liz Phair’s career-defining album still defines her. For better or worse. 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

I was a literature student at Oxford, and I did parodies of famous writers — Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

He suggests that too many liberal newspapers are now “hostile to literature, because morality there reigns above literature, and ideology above morality.” Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Essays Struggle With Big Ideas 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

There’s a desire for mentorship there, as well as a nod to the widely discussed theme of female friendship in recent literature. Catherine Lacey on Self-Inflicted Wounds 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

It's a characteristic of classic literature that it's bound to experience many strange, and even troubling, renewals. Midsummer Night's Dreaming: the RSC takes a smattering of Google fairy dust 2013-05-08T08:54:54Z

But given Bellatin’s own ideas about literature, and his stated plans for “Salón de Belleza,” we might conclude, instead, that it was all simply part of the revision process, which is never finished. Mexico’s Literary Prankster Goes to War With His Publisher 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

The great realist writers of the 19th century — Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Maupassant, Zola and Dostoyevsky — made the subject central to modern literature. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Familiarity with Greek and Roman art and literature had been a permanent feature of European life since the Renaissance. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z

“The Anomaly,” a runaway best seller in France, where it won the Prix Goncourt last year, combines high entertainment with serious literature. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Better, I think, until the baby is two or three, to read them proper literature. Baby, it's a classic 2010-06-28T08:56:00Z

Eliot was one of the most important poets of the 20th century, a giant of modern literature whose haunting verse has fascinated generations of high school students and poetry lovers across the English-speaking world. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

The new prize is distinct from the Hans Christian Andersen medal, sometimes dubbed the "Nobel Prize for children's literature", which was awarded to David Almond earlier this year. JK Rowling wins Hans Christian Andersen literature award 2010-10-20T11:58:00Z

No one can accuse Stieg Larsson of crafting deathless works of literature, but for sheer, unadulterated silliness, Dicker has the Swede beaten, hands down. VIP boxes and seven-figure advances: How fiction gets the publishing industry laughably wrong 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

It, and not the human who observes it, most embodies the possibility of literature. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

In the year since, the worlds of academia, literature, and comedy have been roiled with heated discussion about “political correctness.” Bill Maher “disgusted” by writers who denounced Charlie Hebdo: “You can’t be a prude at the nudist colony” 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

An anthology ghost story, the film has four distinct sections, retelling famous supernatural stories from Japanese literature as interpreted by author Lafcadio Hearn, on whose novel it is based. Like 'Biutiful'? Scarecrow suggests other Best Foreign Film nominees 2011-02-03T20:56:07Z

In contemporary literature, particularly of the more highbrow variety, there’s this fear of plot. “How accidentally a fate is made”: Ed Tarkington on love and its complications, the toll of mental and physical illness — and how dark episodes become the seeds of story 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

The flu pandemic of 1918, which killed tens of millions around the world, left a remarkably small footprint on 20th-century literature and film. How I Wrote the Pandemic: The Writer of ‘Locked Down’ Explains 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Judging from defectors I’ve interviewed and much of the literature on North Korea, many do — especially older people, farmers and those farther from the North Korean border. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

Last month, Rushdie told an audience at the Cheltenham literature festival that he "really" admired Le Carré as a writer. Salman Rushdie and John le Carré end fatwa face-off 2012-11-12T12:56:57Z

I can be a picky reader — “discerning,” let’s call it — but that’s no hurdle, since the supply of interesting literature I haven’t gotten around to is pretty much endless. What Are Your Reading Goals for 2023? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Like his characters, Machado was a creature of literature; ink ran in his veins. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

There is also smart use of TV period drama, including Pride and Prejudice, to show how literature shaped the understanding of acceptable female behaviour. Those media-mad Johnsons 2013-03-25T14:14:00Z

Drawing on recent experiments, Neolithic burials, eclectic myths and global literature, Slingerland teases out the evolutionary advantages and enduring benefits of getting blitzed. A History of Getting Hammered, and Why Some of Us Should Keep Doing It 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

Friends' Central School in Wynnewood, a suburb of Philadelphia, will no longer teach the book in its American literature class, said the Quaker school's principal, Art Hall. Here we go again: 'Huckleberry Finn' pulled from Pennsylvania high school curriculum 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

The entire history of thought, of literature, is an attempt to mitigate this, and yet for all our logic, we remain entirely susceptible to chance. Borges' 'Library of Babel' comes to virtual life 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

The vague rationale for “The Greater Journey” is that, beginning in the 1830s, waves of young Americans who would become important in art, education, medicine, literature, music and technological innovation went to Paris. Books of The Times: The Parisian Experience of American Pioneers 2011-05-22T22:02:06Z

In “The Whale,” Charlie, a literature professor now reduced to online teaching, is eating himself into an early grave after the death of his lover. Samuel D. Hunter’s Own Private Idaho 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

McEwan has fun sending up both literature and espionage, and the twisty narrative will enthral fans of Atonement. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

McWhorter, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the author of numerous books about language, music and black culture, spoke to Salon from his university office. Words act like wild animals: “We don’t understand that no language could ever sit still” 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Such ruminations were inspired by watching two very different sets of anarchists dismantling the work of two pillars of comic British literature: P.G. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

She was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1998 for the study of Slavic literature. Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

All around us and above us was the comforting weight of hundreds of years of literature.” Readers and writers remember 2013-06-21T20:58:44Z

This is a guy who made literature out of talk, and the autobiography is the culmination, the pinnacle of that impulse.” Mark Twain?s Unexpurgated Autobiography 2010-07-10T01:43:00Z

As I wrote last week, Dickens knew himself to be a transformational figure in literature. Why to Read Dickens Now (Or Watch Him on TV) 2012-01-26T19:39:00Z

The bride’s father was a professor of literature at Harvard and also the master of Eliot. Lara Heimert, Gary Rosen 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

Still, I was sorry that Leigh left out my favorite duel in modern literature: The encounter between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty on the paths high above the Reichenbach Falls. The literary history of duels, those absurdly formal fights to the death 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Decades ago, when translation was his livelihood, he specialized in “bad literature,” he said: it took less time to translate but paid just as well. César Aira’s Infinite Footnote to Borges 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

If Sophocles, Shakespeare and Beckett don't fit a definition of literature, then surely it's the definition that's lacking. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z

In a wide-ranging prospectus for the future of literary culture in the 21st century, she addressed the problem of how literature might be distributed to a remote and rural population in Africa and elsewhere. Nadine Gordimer advocates book over screen for the imagination - and Africa 2010-05-30T22:13:00Z

Stop by the Maison de la Presse, a cozy bookstore near the town center, to stock up on route maps, ski guides and mountaineering literature in both French and English. 36 Hours in Chamonix 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Stoner has been dubbed "Lazarus literature" because it rose from the grave to achieve commercial success. 'Lazarus' novel awarded book prize 2013-12-03T02:30:21Z

Atwood, Nobel laureate Alice Munro and Robertson Davies were among those who helped Canadian literature become known worldwide, with Atwood’s early contributions also including such novels as “Surfacing” and an influential work of criticism, “Survival.” Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

“It was my first encounter with the sheer force of literature, and the trouble it could get me into,” he said. At PEN America, a Complicated Centennial for Free Speech 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

In 2008, the then-permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl, said, “The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don’t translate enough and don’t really participate in the big dialogue of literature.” Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Stephen Knight, professor of English literature at Cardiff University and one of the world's leading authorities on the literary evolution of Robin Hood, calls the search for the real outlaw "vulgar empiricism". Looking for Robin 2010-04-14T07:00:00Z

The literature of Silicon Valley is exceedingly thin. What It Is Actually Like to Be in the Engine Room of the Start-Up Economy 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Still, when a doctor in “The Railway Children” explains that girls are “poor, soft, weak, frightened things like rabbits,” Nesbit quickly dispels this nonsense with one of the most thrilling scenes in children’s literature. Review | A favorite of J.K. Rowling, Edith Nesbit was a pioneer of children’s books and so much more 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

After a Pulitzer early in his career for “The Caine Munity,” he was mostly ignored by awards committees and was often excluded from anthologies of Jewish literature. Herman Wouk, a consummate writer until the end, dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Have they thought through the impact of their messianic message about literature on the most vulnerable in our society? Letters: Can philanthropy again come to the help of public libraries? 2011-01-31T00:05:06Z

As a personality, he was a throwback to a time when the literature business was famously genteel. Timothy Seldes, Literary Agent, Dies at 88 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

With that enigmatic opening line of “Beloved,” Toni Morrison, who died Monday at the age of 88, placed her indelible stamp on American literature. Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

There are any number of reasons why we read, and reread, the literature of antiquity. Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

They had a pervasive influence on American cultural trends in areas ranging from egalitarianism and women’s rights to philosophy, religion, literature, linguistics, and science. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z

The accompanying literature describes it as a “highly classified new weapon.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: This hot sauce is a killer 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

The younger Aguirre-Sacasa went to Georgetown Prep, Georgetown University, then to McGill University in Montreal for a master’s degree in English literature. The killer career of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

In other cases, it was a matter of consolidating folk culture into nationalist literature, such as the “Kalevala,” which helped Finns fight for their cultural identity. Put a lid on the operatic Viking helmet cliché 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Reynolds, 35, is a finalist for the National Book Award in young people’s literature for “Look Both Ways,” which came out this month. Jason Reynolds Is on a Mission 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

I consider it to be a masterpiece—certainly of children’s literature, but maybe of all literature—and I find it very hard to read. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Simpson won the Rome Prize, given by the American Academy in Rome, in 1957, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature in 1976. Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Dies at 89 2012-09-18T00:04:57Z

The good ones are not sheepish or silent in defense of literature and history and the rest. “Books Smell Like Old People”: Do Teens Read Seriously Anymore? 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Carpenter begins with his own elaboration of the Prelude to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1, a seemingly foolhardy thing to do given Bach's enormous organ literature. Joy, daring in Cameron Carpenter's 'If You Could Read My Mind' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

To generate more cash the group decided “to create interest in all things Russian” — literature, music, food, drink. Veteran actors launch Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ 2013-01-17T22:12:23Z

This time around I’m fascinated with the lineage of oral literatures. Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

It was conceived of as being a big, one-off celebration of books and the written word at the Edinburgh Festival, which had every other art form represented but nothing on literature. Book festival celebrates 30 years 2013-08-09T23:04:00Z

Such shows are — brace yourself; this is probably the only time you will ever see these low-rent programs equated with great literature — the “Waiting for Godot” of television. Critic?s Notebook: ?Paranormal Witness? on Syfy Joins TV?s Supernatural Lineup 2011-09-06T22:26:12Z

I think English literature is like a great big field. Andy Stanton's 'cult humour for kids' 2011-07-05T11:48:22Z

The summit is one of the dazzlingly loudest moments in all the standard symphonic literature. L.A. Phil and Semyon Bychkov achieve a musical summit with 'Alpine Symphony' 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Never mind that it encouraged a vital and productive rapprochement between journalism and literature, and inspired a generation of writers and readers. Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction 2013-02-19T15:55:29Z

Rowling encouraged parents to be open to children dealing with fears through literature, and cautioned against sheltering children from certain types of books. J.K. Rowling, "adult" fiction author, jokes about "50 Shades" 2012-10-17T18:18:04Z

After taking a class with Stephens, he fell in love with literature and now teaches English at a private high school in Oakton, Va. How a small school for gifted kids in the D.C. exurbs gets big results 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

The £14m has been paid to 55 theatre, art, music, dance and literature organisations over the past three financial years. Troubled arts venues get £14m rescue 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Again it was as though he and I, and even the author under review, were conduits through which literature passed. Remembering Robert Silvers 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Some of the biggest names in literature are auctioning off the chance for members of the public to lend their name to a character in the writers' forthcoming works. Authors auction character names 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

Fast forward to modern times, and academic literature supports the idea that beautiful people are still perceived more positively in pretty much every way — not just in desirability, but also in intelligence, kindness, humor. Let's celebrate the art of the glow-down 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

English literature majors like Ana, who was finishing college as the book began, would recognize this as foreshadowing. Review: E. L. James’s ‘Grey’ Goes Inside His Brain, and, Yes, His Pants 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

What better area of study in times of change than the literature of the future? Welcome to the New Liberal Arts. Fancy a BA in Science Fiction? 2011-08-26T10:40:24Z

“The texts that work the best seem to have three qualities,” Cassedy explained: “They are verbally intricate; they are considered serious literature; and they are morally complex. Shakespeare was the obvious next step.” The smutty Shakespeare game you need for your next smarty-pants party 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

The foundation has already released longlists of 10 for young people’s literature and translation and on Friday will publish the fiction longlist. Louis Menand among nonfiction National Book Award nominees 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

“I think the cowboy IS the new vampire,” opines Margaret Marbury, the vice president of editorial for Harlequin, Miller’s publisher and the No. 1 publisher of romance literature in the world. Galley Girl: Linda Lael Miller and the Rise of the Cowboy Romance Novel 2011-12-02T18:30:19Z

For me, the biggest lesson is that studying English literature at university is a recipe for misery. Ezra Pound wrote the world’s single greatest poem, but is it wrong to love a fascist? | Ash Sarkar 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

But the two writers also share a conviction that creating a national literature is a civic duty. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco 2010-06-26T23:06:00Z

A team of scholars reports that there's been a “dramatic” increase in curse words in American literature since 1950, the Guardian reports. Books in America are full of swear words: the more recent, the more profane 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Youd has long made drawings and paintings, many of them inspired by words and literature. Why artist Tim Youd is spending his nights on Hollywood Boulevard retyping John Rechy's hustling novel 'City of Night' 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Carmen grew up in a prosperous and cultured household, surrounded by art, music and literature. Carmen Herrera, Cuban-Born Artist Who Won Fame at 89, Dies at 106 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

The essay has been an important part of the literature survey curriculum for more than half a century. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

To me, the strong position, the interesting position, is to tack against the wind and make one of the only magazines of some circulation that is devoted entirely to literature and art, but really literature.” Lorin Stein, the Paris Review?s New Party Boy 2011-02-25T19:58:16Z

Attendees at the festival included Greene's daughter Caroline Bourget, as well as local residents and students and academics of film and literature, from as far afield as Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States. Leper colony novel would make great film, producer tells Greene fest 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

A best-of collection — with an introduction by Kelly Link — by the late British master of supernatural fiction and children’s literature. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

That certainly appears to be the case — the story is full of revealing backstories — but readers hoping for a complementary classic of dystopian literature may be disappointed. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

At one point, they leave the film aside to discuss literature. Steve Bannon Documentary Debuts. Controversy Naturally Follows. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

That, he said, may account for his love of literature. The Inside Story on Outsiderness 2011-02-25T21:36:23Z

Beattie is currently a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Virginia; I suspect, from reading this book, that her classes are mesmerizing. 'Mrs. Nixon': Stories, real and imagined, of an enigmatic first lady 2011-12-01T00:41:04Z

“I have had a long career and a good one, and here at the end of it, I really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river,” she said. National Book Award Goes to Phil Klay for His Short Story Collection 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Only in literature does this overlap occur, although writers, it would seem, would prefer to believe that it doesn't. How writers review their critics 2010-09-22T09:47:00Z

“Haffner’s book was by far the best written of the contemporary literature on the question of unemployed, delinquent youth at the end of Weimar,” he said. A Gritty Weimar Portrait of Youth Gangs, Restored to Renewed Acclaim 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

He remained on the faculty for 23 years, offering popular courses in writing and on science fiction as literature. 2010-02-14T04:16:00Z

The word “Gypsy,” derived from “Egyptian,” is a misnomer; equally misleading is a stereotype of joyfully itinerant musicians, dancers and petty thieves that persists in opera, literature, pop hits and movies. ‘A People Uncounted’ Explores the Roma Through the Centuries 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

I like working with a subject that is quite serious or maybe even highbrow or maybe even what someone might call boring, like literature or science. He Makes Physics Funny 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

He received a degree in Italian literature in 1954 from Kyoto University and later worked as a magazine editor, a factory foreman and a comedy scriptwriter before turning to science fiction. Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 80 2011-08-10T16:25:10Z

Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images Even though I was enamoured with film at college, I took literature classes and was reading a lot of great novels. The film that changed my life: Rian Johnson 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

“He loved it, even though he kept saying, ‘This is not literature, I don't know why I’m publishing it’,” Plunket recalled. Taking a Late-in-Life Victory Lap, Thanks to His Novel’s ‘Lunatic Energy’ 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

His despair was the byproduct of a creative process that led to one of the most exquisite works of literature. Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom and Writer’s Block 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

The idea of a challenging yet well-ordered world so prevalent in modernist literature may seem dated now, but as a young reader and video game player I found it tremendously appealing. What Pokémon Can Teach Us About Fiction 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

"Everyone is fed up with book prizes where professors of literature choose books which are great reads, but only for professors of literature," said Nury Vittachi, chairman of the Asia-Pacific Writers' and Translators' Association. How readers will take control in the new age of print 2013-07-01T12:11:03Z

Our politics, our literature, our popular culture and our social media are saturated with it. Perspective | Art can help distinguish between conspiracy and reality, and this exhibition proves it 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

We spoke to Angela Shaw-Thornburg, a scholar of American and African-American literature at South Carolina State University, about the book, its characters, and what they all tell us about where America is now. Harper Lee’s lingering Civil War ghosts: “Go Set a Watchman” is “a very accurate perspective of what’s going on here in the South” 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

There would be no history of literature, Jon Fosse said, this was the first time he had spoken, the texts they would go through and discuss would be predominantly recent ones, therefore modernist and postmodernist. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Batuman worries we are replacing “great literature” with something lesser, “excellent fiction.” Books of The Times: ‘MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction’ 2014-02-25T20:27:31Z

These chivalric tropes, which persist in both genre stories and high literature, are what the kids these days would call problematic. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

I needed an English literature major from the streets. Danny Trejo reflects on life, prison and Hollywood: "Movie stars are d**ks, OK? They suck" 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

Developed according to her research, it is described, in the scientific literature, as “biscuit friendly.” Louise Slade, Scientist Who Studied the Molecules in Food, Dies at 74 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

“We just sat there talking for hours, easily going from topic to topic, about politics, literature, just about anything, and we understood all of each other’s references.” A Good Day in New York for Former TV Anchor 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

Lear, the self-destructing creator of the most ill-conceived retirement plan in world literature, is hardly a likable man to begin with. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z

Kidman credits her ability to live in her character’s emotions to her early study of Russian literature, such as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, as well as plays by Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant can’t tell you the twists in ‘The Undoing.’ But even they were shocked by the story. 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Vietnam veterans, ZZ Top look-alikes handing out anti-nuke literature, teachers in “I Heart Public School” shirts and grandmothers in “Brand New Congress” shirts. Can a Bronx socialist help a campaign in Kansas? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will find out soon. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

She saw the madness we’re living in now years ago because of certain trends in reporting and in literature. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Two: He had it within himself, despite not having risen to this level before, to write the greatest odes in the history of English literature. Perspective | The perfect poem for Valentine’s Day 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

“And if Homer was literature then Dylan was certainly literature, and he elevated American literature to a place it never was before.” Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

There’s plenty of evidence that we are living in a Hobbesian hellscape of treachery and despair, and much of today’s literature, dutifully, reflects that. They’re Not Lost in the Woods, They’re Thriving 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the study of English literature itself started in working men's colleges as a poor man's classics. Great literature should stay on all reading lists 2012-10-07T18:30:01Z

Unlike the millennial billionaires who condescend to non-technical pursuits, Allen attributed his entrepreneurial ambition and imagination to a wide-ranging autodidacticism and a natural passion for art and literature. The Rare Humanism Behind Paul Allen’s Technological Vision 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

A glance at the literature on architectural history reveals just how old the practice of vertical transport of goods and people is. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z

We studied abroad – I studied comparative literature at the American University in Cairo – in a culture where women are married off after high school or even younger. Haifaa al-Mansour: 'It's very important to celebrate resistance' 2013-07-13T23:05:04Z

I think we can all agree that these magazines are not great literature. The war on lad mags 2013-05-29T00:00:00Z

Gove is a passionate advocate for excellence in music and literature, but this is silly. Should children read 50 books a year? 2011-03-22T16:47:17Z

“The story of that person is not a personal story and it’s more a universal story, it is literature.” A Polish Artist With Varied Talents 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

After all, the explosion of subjective storytelling is what has brought us new and beautiful voices in literature, on television and on twitter. Fake News: It’s as American as George Washington’s Cherry Tree 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Dylan was named the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, Oct. Dylan book sales soar after Nobel announcement 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

He works at, as he puts it, “transplanting literature into my father’s life.” Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z

According to the archivists, the memoir also details a boozy evening with Hemingway in 1954 following the great American novelist’s Nobel Prize for literature victory. Orson Welles memoir found 30 years after great director's death 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

SAT St. Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church hosts bazaar with Egyptian food, pastries, art, jewelry, souvenirs, statues, Coptic Christian art, literature, noon-8 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Today he’s cultivated sections on everything Southern, from cooking to gardening, literature to religion. 36 Hours in Jackson, Miss. 2013-05-30T17:27:31Z

Borrás declined to disclose the company’s earnings but said, “We have always been a slightly strange publishing house, betting more on the quality of the literature than its sales potential.” Dispute Erupts Over Translation Rights to New Nobel Laureate 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Alexander is an accomplished writer, decorated with the top awards given to authors of literature for young people. Kwame Alexander’s New Book About Slavery Focuses on Africa, Not America 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Mendes revealed his plans to step down from the series to an audience at the Hay Festival of literature in Wales. Sam Mendes: It's time for a new James Bond director 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

She told him she had heard him speak when she was a girl; he invited her to join a study group he was leading on Anglo-Saxon literature. María Kodama, Keeper of the Borges Legacy, Dies at 86 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

The university confirms that the actor nominated for the 2010 Academy Award for best actor in “127 Hours” has been accepted for the school’s doctoral program in literature and creative writing. James Franco puts another MFA notch in his degree belt 2011-04-25T18:05:00Z

“It’s easy to forget, in the crush of learning rules and precedents, that all law is for something, directed toward some end,” Hawley was quoted as saying in Yale’s commencement literature in 2006. What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing? 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, the performances – given that the storytellers are not allowed to use notes – tend towards the raw and unstructured; they also occasionally blur the distinction between oral literature and stand-up comedy. What a performance 2010-07-30T23:05:00Z

Ferrante reflects on style, her literary influences, the “arduous journey” of women in literature and details the struggles she’s faced as a fiction writer in this crisp essay collection. Newly Published, From the Birth of Hip-Hop to Elena Ferrante 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

His son is good at math, but his daughter is excellent at literature. Analysis | Why are there so many stories about parents killing kids? A new movie treats it as comedy. 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

In literature, however, new books and plays are generally received as an enrichment of tradition, rather than a countervention of it. Perspective | Women give voice to a male canon. It happens to be ancient Greek. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

“Brecht is a great poet,” the translators write in their introduction, “one of the three or four best in the whole of German literature.” Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Artists, often taking their cues from apocryphal literature and legend, have remade Church history for centuries, perhaps no more strikingly than the sanitizing and humanizing of Jerome. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Barnes & Noble is releasing a special edition of the novel, with an essay about Asian American representation in literature by Kuang. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

As someone who researches and translates literature, with a particular focus on Scandinavian texts, I’ve noticed that Nordic books are less about jobs than their English-language equivalents. Working less to live well: Work-obsessed Americans should take a cue from Swedes 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Coinciding with the exhibition will be a BBC Four season on gothic literature, due to be broadcast in the autumn. British Library announces new season 2014-01-22T18:42:34Z

In November, his graphic novel “March: Book Three,” the third volume in a series based on his experiences as a young man, won the National Book Award for young people’s literature. Just in time for Martin Luther King Day, Rep. John Lewis' books sales soar after harsh words from Donald Trump 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Some of the funniest bits at Saturday’s show are readings from popular literature of the day. Music Review: Carole J. Bufford in ‘Speak Easy’ 2012-05-22T22:02:59Z

We approve of populist writing but we are looking for very beautiful, outstanding literature for that age group. Neil Gaiman wins Carnegie medal 2010-06-24T11:33:00Z

The fashion designer and author of the new memoir “I.M.” likes his literature “sort of plain”: “Style is suspicious to me in general. I think that’s true about my taste in everything. Food. Décor. Clothes.” Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Nearly two centuries later, his unwieldy tragedy is ranked among the triumphs of German literature. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Akhtar’s astute observations of the clashes between old world and new, between secular and sacred, among immigrants might seem familiar to readers of both contemporary and classic literature. Books of The Times: ?American Dervish? ? By Ayad Akhtar ? Review 2012-01-04T22:00:52Z

There would be no history, literature or learning without it. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z

Like Tom Lubbock’s, his passing is twined with someone else’s emerging, creating the narrative of birth and death that is the only story in literature. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

And it has impact far beyond music: Hip-hop is woven into television and film, fashion, advertising, literature, politics and countless other corners of American life. How Do You Tell the Story of 50 Years of Hip-Hop? 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

I'd just graduated in English literature and spent most of my time drawing stupid cartoons like that. Martin Rowson and Phill Jupitus: 'Cartoons are a kind of voodoo' 2013-01-28T17:15:26Z

Once an opera singer, my mother had passionately devoted herself to this mission and had even gotten a PhD in literature to improve her literary skills. My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

Sometimes they appear unmoved by some of the greatest names in modern literature. Authors dress up as their favourite characters 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

By longstanding tradition, as Professor Hartman reminded his readers, literary criticism was seen as a handmaiden of literature — an adjunct whose sole raison d’être was literature itself. Geoffrey H. Hartman, Scholar Who Saw Literary Criticism as Art, Dies at 86 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

In 1982 she became assistant professor for English literature at Humboldt University. Hanna Behrend obituary 2011-01-03T18:07:17Z

It is one of the most enigmatic stories of all time, with an opening sentence that's unparalleled in all of literature. 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z

“I cannot imagine how anyone could even think of writing a novel without having at least a vague of idea of the 10,000 years of literature that have gone before,” Mr. Márquez said. Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2014-04-18T01:58:28Z

The seeds of my philosophical interests were planted during those early college years as well as my love of modernist literature. Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

"The work of Pen, both in promoting the best of world literature and in opposing abuses of freedom, continues to be vitally important," he added. Rushdie receives Pen Pinter prize 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Earlier this week, the National Book Foundation released longlists of 10 in young people's literature, poetry and nonfiction. Colson Whitehead on fiction longlist for National Book Award 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Still, the prejudiced representation of African characters in literature could not but have had an influence on Achebe’s development as a writer. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z

“Moonflower” addresses childhood depression without flinching, contributing to a small but growing space in children’s literature. A Fantasy Novel About a Harsh Reality: Childhood Depression 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

But it turns out that some of the most influential E.A. literature happens to be preoccupied with killer robots too. Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

It's been more than 20 years since an American was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. 7 reasons why the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is a Belarusian you don't know 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

She also translates French literature, and it is the time she spent wrestling with Proust that she holds responsible for turning her into a miniaturist. Lydia Davis: 'My style is a reaction to Proust's long sentences' 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

James Caan stars as a literature professor with a serious gambling addiction. ArtsBeat Blog: Critics' Picks Video: 'The Gambler' 2011-09-26T22:46:36Z

Clive James got it right: "Voznesensky's poetry has the same limitations as most other Soviet literature which has ever been officially published … what ought to be his main subject matter is hardly there." Andrei Voznesensky obituary 2010-06-03T18:01:00Z

The Swedish Academy has selected the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature and will announce the decision next week after a formal vote, the panel's spokesman said Friday. Nobel jury picks literature prize winner 2010-10-01T13:01:00Z

But there is one striking difference: There are no familiar names from history or literature on his stage this time. Boris Eifman on creating 'a new type of theater' in ballet 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Mo, the first Chinese national to win the literature award, said heated emotions "allow politics to suppress literature." Chinese Nobel winner: Politics a great challenge 2012-12-07T18:30:17Z

Much of postwar Dutch literature is written by ex-Protestants bitter about their severe upbringing. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z

And what, really, are we talking about when we speak of the “images” produced by literature? This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Kulturgeschichte means “cultural history,” though the word Kultur is fiendishly difficult to translate from German; it is closer to “native culture” than to “high culture,” as in art and literature. The Perils of Order, Taken to the Extreme 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Some people said that I was a new voice in Japanese literature, and some people called me a punk. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

His catalog includes a variety of legal guides, survival manuals, tactical books and other literature and DVDs about weapons and gun culture. “This is the Wild West” 2012-09-16T19:00:00Z

“It’s just literature to me,” one young man says, and others are even less kind. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Fires of Faith,' Part 3 2011-10-30T14:30:37Z

Western culture, by way of literature, film, and television, is conditioned to romanticize the lot of the orphan: Think of Batman. "Party of Five" reboots the '90s classic with a family orphaned by deportation 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Making it, he added, was kind of like an “adrenaline dump” for him, especially as so much of it was improvised.“On this film we knew we weren’t taking on previous American literature,” he said. The Carpetbagger: ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Hustle’ Take Top Honors at the 2014 Golden Globes 2014-01-13T05:14:45Z

Elizabeth, who’d spent the previous year teaching in a girls’ school so that she could help her family with money, began studying French literature and art. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

Over the years, it’s been assigned in college literature classes, yanked out of school libraries, celebrated and denigrated and feared and loved. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has been feared, banned and loved. Now it’s scaring the bejeezus out of us again. 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

It is one of the best novels of the 20th century and looks like a permanent addition to literature. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

For his part, Roth had encouraged, then scuttled, a biography by his friend Ross Miller, a literature professor. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

When I started reading the book that first got Murugan into trouble, “One Part Woman,” I immediately recognized the novel as belonging to a genre that we might call “rooted literature.” How Perumal Murugan Was Resurrected Through Writing 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

In the months leading up to the ceremony, there was copious chatter about the recipient of this year’s award for literature, the American musician Bob Dylan. A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

It leaves you wanting, especially when it comes to great literature and stories.” On the Scene: At Lisa Scottoline’s Book-Club Party 2013-11-05T19:36:27Z

He was bright and devoured art, French and literature, but found himself facing many of the troubles faced by young men without a father figure. Foals: 'I built an enamel around myself' 2010-05-06T20:30:00Z

“Angels,” Johnson’s 1983 debut novel, was similarly revelatory — making the homely backdrop of a Greyhound bus journey suddenly appropriate to the highest American literature. Denis Johnson’s Death-Infused Last Stories 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

He’s synthesized loads of the literature and argument around jazz, and he builds particularly on recent works of historiography. Books of The Times: ?Blue Notes in Black and White? by Benjamin Cawthra - Review 2011-12-15T22:54:43Z

Have we so lost sight of great literature, are we so irredeemably self-obsessed that we have forgotten why characterisation matters to literature and why it is at the heart of so many great novels? The most offensive novelty books yet 2010-10-26T11:30:00Z

When literature and art are sanitized so they no longer push our buttons, they cease to be literature and art. A warning about trigger warnings 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

He also received a master’s degree in comparative literature from the University at Buffalo. Vina Tran, Michael Stanish 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

They discussed a wide range of topics, including: literature, music, economic inequality and “The Sopranos.” The Classical Concert That Changed Their Lives 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Ms. Miller, a scholar of classical literature, has retold the myths before. Two New Books Look at Mythology With Fresh Eyes 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

It was therefore inevitable, I suppose, that something divisive would enter our lives, because marriage—like physics, literature, and carpentry—is almost always synonymous with complexity. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z

Poetry is not written for experts and it’s not written for scholars and it doesn’t belong to the priests of literature, it belongs to the people. Matthew Zapruder explains how you learned poetry wrong (but that's easy to fix) 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

American cinema — more than television or pop music or literature — still prefers to treat black people as symbols, problems and members of a “niche” audience. Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? Discuss. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

“Disoriental” was a National Book Award finalist last fall for best translated literature. Négar Djavadi’s novel ‘Disoriental’ receives $10,000 prize 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

Mario Vargas Llosa meets the press in New York after his Nobel prize for literature victory., Mario Vargas Llosa: an unclassifiable Nobel winner 2010-10-08T10:50:00Z

She spoke of discovering literature and learning as a teenager through exploring her local branch. Zadie Smith joins campaign to save her local library 2011-03-29T23:33:57Z

The lecturer said there were few pieces of art and literature about the pandemic afterward, as if it was deemed too terrible and swept under the rug. Through comics, Seattle cartoonists document their lives during the coronavirus pandemic 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

I just think it's a really wonderful time in young adult literature. John Green on Mental Illness and Writing a Book That Mirrors His Own Life 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Taking art and literature as inspiration means no rules, and the freedom to express your culinary creativity as you please, according to your vision and the contents of your cupboards. Food as art: it looks almost too good to eat 2012-08-03T22:00:40Z

From Iowa she goes to Yale, for a Ph.D. in English literature, then to the artists’ colony Yaddo, where she writes fiction. Leslie Jamison’s Memoir Finds Its Footing in Sobriety 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

He went on to say that, with the development of the media, people no longer needed to learn about the world or enhance their accomplishments by reading works of literature. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z

Iain's science-fiction writing came out of a complex engagement with the field as he encountered it in the 1970s, as well as with mainstream literature and the classics. Iain Banks: 'A star whose light will travel a long way' 2013-06-10T16:56:34Z

She said she devours both literature and essays about current affairs. Françoise Hardy, a French National Treasure, Is Back from the Brink 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Now, we might not agree with Nabokov’s ideas about literature and his ways of reading and evaluating literary works. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z

If he’s had any real commitment to music and theater and literature and the rest of it, it’s news to the rest of us. We will miss Barack Obama for a lot of things, but not his cultural policy 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

And then, I'd say NO, because literature is a fight against all political systems. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z

The usual criticism used to be someone holding the new Ian McEwan in one hand and the worst schlocky crime beach read in the other and asking: how is this literature? A life in writing: Mark Billingham 2012-08-03T21:55:08Z

So is there something in that hypocrisy for new gay literature? ‘Our Young Man’ Reframes a 19th-Century Work in the 1980s 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

In return she watched over his successes — and also goaded him to read more serious literature. Updike at Work: Letters, Postcards and Much More 2010-06-21T17:35:00Z

Well, there’s an interesting situation going on wherein literary critics are intimately involved in producing the literary phenomenon that is the field of digital literature. After e-literature, there’s no going back 2012-10-29T11:30:00Z

For MacLehose, publishing the greats of European literature was something you did as a matter of course – whether a book was originally written in German, French or Russian was of little importance. Guardian Books podcast: Literature in translation and water stories 2013-03-15T14:06:09Z

I’ve always taken an apolitical stance with regards to literature, because I’m not convinced that literature is the best way to form political opinions. Ayad Akhtar to Lead PEN America 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Carthage was levelled and burned in 146BC, its population slaughtered or sold into slavery and its language, culture and literature all but annihilated. A story of Hannibal offers a lesson to the modern world 2010-07-06T13:13:00Z

That is what art, what literature, has in common with teaching -- they all, at their most resonant, traffic in the real. Kansas and the right to free expression 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

A panel of experts on classical Chinese and Japanese literature nominated names that met strict rules, including being easy to read and write but not common. Japan’s new era called ‘Reiwa,’ for the pursuit of harmony 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

This week we put the Books podcast into analysis, examining how literature explores what it is to be human. Guardian Books podcast: Literature on the couch 2013-03-22T16:15:06Z

In ancient literature, it is love that makes men fight; in unheroic ages, the relationship is less direct. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-22T21:55:12Z

“I think that we can mistake metafiction as sort of a highbrow, beard-strokey thing, but actually it’s just rough-and-tumble play with the rules of literature,” says Barnett, the children’s book author. 50 years later, ‘The Monster at the End of This Book’ is still selling — and inspiring authors 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

In the main, teenage girls don’t fare well in literature. A Coming-of-Age as American as Apple Pie 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Mitchell Jackson, author of “Survival Math,” shared some of his favorite works of African American literature, drawn from what looks like a precarious vertical stack but is actually a clever shelving system. Perspective | There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

They wondered what the consequences of this trend would be for native literatures, and why their universities could not validate and run courses themselves. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z

Mr. Bayley published many well-received scholarly books, including studies of English poetry, Russian literature and Shakespeare, as well as wide-ranging essay collections. John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

She earned her doctorate in French literature from Duke University and her law degree from the University of Virginia. Just Asking: Shireen Lewis 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The longevity of Swift’s work is a testament to its potency because no genre fades as quickly: Satires are the cut flowers of literature. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

He was like the Cary Grant of the existentialists and he was the youngest writer to ever win the Nobel prize for literature so how about that? Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles: 'I'm out on the open road now' 2012-10-28T19:18:08Z

Knowing which literature, music or art to praise could signal to others their rightful place at the top of society. Why our dislikes should be celebrated as much as our likes 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

Luiselli holds a doctorate in comparative literature from Columbia, and “Lost Children Archive” is a virtuosic, erudite performance, referring back to and repurposing the words and strategies of modernist writers like Ezra Pound, T.S. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Of all the sibling configurations sitting at the crowded dinner table of Western literature, the one that arguably receives the least amount of attention is that of brother and sister. When the Family Falls Apart 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

China disavowed its only literature Nobel Prize winner, Gao Xingjian, who left China for France in the 1980s to escape censorship, he won the prize in 2000. Chinese writers call for more translations 2011-08-26T11:11:09Z

Where it leads is not where anyone imagined: it becomes a kind of documentary literature. “S-Town” Investigates the Human Mystery 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

If Lee is a rent-stabilized Dorothy Parker, Jack is a couch-crashing Oscar Wilde — utterly ignorant of literature but naturally witty and great fun to be around. Review: Melissa McCarthy Is Criminally Good in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

As a child she began to haunt a local library and decided to read English literature A through Z. Thank God, she says, for Jane Austen right at the start. Books of The Times: Jeanette Winterson?s ?Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?? 2012-03-08T17:22:58Z

The country had a huge literary heritage, but only Muriel Spark was producing contemporary literature, hardly any of it actually set in Scotland. Scotland should not be wasting time on blaming the English any more 2012-12-21T19:00:00Z

What kind of literature do we owe our young readers? A New Book From the Creator of ‘Wonder’ Tells a Holocaust Story 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The play, which will show at the London literature festival from 10-12 July, will be directed by Jack McNamara of new company Future Ruins, complete with music, video and projections. Don DeLillo's The Word for Snow to take London stage by storm 2012-07-04T15:33:48Z

Choukri is a towering figure in Moroccan literature, and this novel is perhaps his best. Read Your Way Through Tangier 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

Excerpts lifted from landmarks of Western literature, running from the epic tradition of Homer and Milton to the high-modernist experiments of James Joyce and T.S. 'The Nine Muses': Strange take on migrants' icy reception 2012-02-02T21:10:04Z

Fragonard also illustrated popular literature, including the “Tales” of Jean de La Fontaine and the epic poem “Orlando Furioso.” Rococo Bad Boy Rebels in ‘Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant’ 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

It's a troubling sign of the times that the number of college students getting degrees in literature is declining across the world. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

His is a multimedia literature, a modernist twist on the flabby forms of social realism that stitches a collage of press-clippings, newsreels and radio announcers’ voices into the narrative fabric. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

After graduating from Yeshiva University he earned a master’s degree from Columbia in 1946 and a doctorate in 1951, both in English and comparative literature. Allen Mandelbaum, Translator of ?Divine Comedy,? Dies at 85 2011-11-05T05:21:48Z

“Comparatively, to a string quartet, we have not much literature at all,” says trumpeter Amy McCabe, the fourth core member of the group. With the Barclay Brass, D.C. takes an outsized role in the small world of classical brass music 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Topics: , Satan, Satanism, , Devil Worship, , literature, , , counterculture, The 60s, , Excerpted from "Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution" Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z

With a newfound appreciation for literature and a constant evolution of ideas about identity and history, my poetry became an outlet for all the emotions I never had words for. Enrique Garcia Naranjo, on the importance of being Mexcellent 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

A great crime novel, however, is an unstable thing, entertainment and literature suspended in some undetermined solution. “Gone Girl”: Marriage can be murder 2012-06-04T00:00:00Z

“The most infamously obscene book in ancient or modern literature,” an Irish critic called it. Why We Are No Longer Shocked by “Ulysses” 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

"The good thing about the Astrid Lindgren is that it's not just writers and illustrators – all kinds of organisations which promote writing and reading and literature are in the running," said Almond. David Almond in running for prestigious children's book prize 'double' 2010-03-18T12:42:00Z

Both these handsome volumes — from Tartarus Press — are suffused with that air of mystery, transgression and foreboding one associates with continental literature and film during the 1920s and ’30s. Review | In praise of pretty books 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

If you look across fashion and music and literature, we seem to nurture creativity. AUDIO: 'Creative flair' will sustain UK fashion 2012-09-18T09:08:00Z

Banned Books Week, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, will be marked with displays of censored literature in thousands of libraries and bookshops across the US from 30 September. No sex please, we're American – Banned Books Week turns 30 2012-09-28T15:36:14Z

The Dayton awards are meant to recognize the power of literature in promoting peace and global understanding, and the achievement award goes to a writer for body of work. APNewsBreak: Author O'Brien wins Ohio Peace Prize 2012-08-01T12:28:08Z

I know in my heart that it is wrong to parse song lyrics like bits of literature. Can We Escape the Diabolical Clichés of Coldplay? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

I suppose that I have bought into the “Dead Poets Society” version of an instructor, one capable of rousing even the most complacent into passionate engagement with literature. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z

The recommendation was made in a report last year from a literature working group chaired by Rosemary Goring, literary editor of The Herald newspaper. Scottish Academy of Literature plan dropped 2011-02-07T16:07:46Z

I have a bit of an obsession with Gilgamesh, the earliest surviving work of literature, which comes to us in fragments. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Excerpts lifted from landmarks of Western literature, running from the epic tradition of Homer and Milton to the high-modernist experiments of James Joyce and T. S. Eliot, are read in voice-over. | 'The Nine Muses': ?The Nine Muses,? by John Akomfrah - Review 2011-10-05T22:07:26Z

“Guerrilla archiving” is a new term, one that can’t be found in scholarly archival literature. How the “guerrilla archivists” saved history – and are doing it again under Trump 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

They say they’re convinced science not only offers unexpected insights into individual texts, but that it may help to answer fundamental questions about literature’s very existence: Why do we read fiction? Next Big Thing: Literary Scholars Turn to Science 2010-03-31T22:36:00Z

You’ll be aware of the big debate in the wake of the Booker winner this year about difficulty in literature, which I find incredible! Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Every family has secrets, and often those secrets hide in plain sight — indeed, that motif is a mainstay of literature. What if the Thief Who Steals Your Identity Is Your Mom? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

There’s another key difference between music and literature: For most people, music exists in performance, while literature exists on the page. Perspective | Women give voice to a male canon. It happens to be ancient Greek. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

Is literature written by women still not taken as seriously? Joyce Carol Oates, writer – portrait of the artist 2012-08-14T19:59:01Z

Director Stanley Kubrick reportedly selected the young and inexperienced Lyon to play Lolita – a 12-year-old in Nabokov’s book who enters into a relationship with a middle-aged literature professor – from among 800 aspirants. Sue Lyon, Kubrick's Lolita, dies aged 73 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

In the literature of the Middle Ages, Chaucer was the most famous writer to merrily invoke the C-word, or, in his case, the Q-word. Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee, and the Strange Path of an Ancient Epithet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Here are the finalists for fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature and poetry. National Book Awards Finalists Include Colson Whitehead and Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

As the editor of “Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany,” I knew “True Grit” very well as literature but not as historical fiction, based on actual geography. On the Trail of ‘True Grit:’ A Tale Comes to Life 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

But culturally, the company’s global aspirations represent a significant new landmark for African literature. A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

But as imaginative literature reclaims the territories forbidden it by realism, and moves back from Elfland towards the outskirts of Manchester, it treads on risky ground. Boneland by Alan Garner – review 2012-08-29T09:05:01Z

Yes, quite a bit of the interest has been what the Iraqi author and N.Y.U. literature professor Sinan Antoon calls “forensic”—books used as tools to diagnose the political pathologies of the region. The Novel After the Arab Spring 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z

Wittstein said that at the time the paper appeared virtually the only mentions of the syndrome were in Japanese medical literature. Did Debbie Reynolds die of a broken heart? 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Every literature fan knows the frustration of walking into a bookstore with $300,000 burning a hole in your pocket, but not being able to find even one book that will eventually explode. James Patterson is selling a $300,000 exploding book 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain” is one of the most remarkable short stories in contemporary North American literature. Understanding apocalyptic events through literature 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

Behind the facade, he was known for his erudition and penchant for literature, and he devoured the world’s leading newspapers daily. Karl Lagerfeld: fashion's prolific commander-in-chief 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

The last third of the book, as José and his family desperately fight his deportation, with Cantú’s considerable help, makes a useful contribution to the literature of today’s border. A Different Perspective on the Border 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

"You may not be aware of this, but Dr. Seuss is a bit of a cliche, a tired and worn ambassador for children's literature," Soeiro wrote on Horn Book's Family Reading blog. Melania Trump calls Massachusetts librarian's comments on Dr. Seuss book donation 'unfortunate'  2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Dr Sarah Churchwell, senior lecturer in US literature and culture at the University of East Anglia, said the development made her "incandescent" with anger. The last 'n-word' 2011-01-05T12:02:58Z

But despite some pleasurable music, the heart of the show was Mr. Goldblum’s interaction with the audience with a kind of running quiz show to identify quotations from movies and literature and highlight his erudition. Jeff Goldblum Plays Jazz at the Café Carlyle 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Dido’s own story, and tragic end, is the stuff of legend, inspiring great literature and music. Into Africa: 6 Vacation Ideas From Our Experts 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Seduction is a grand theme, influencing politics and power, guiding history, shaping literature and forging powerful social movements. Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The shortlist for the prize, arguably the world’s most significant award for literature translated into English, was announced in an online news conference on Thursday. French Authors Lead International Booker Prize Shortlist 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The bookish Smiley retreated into his beloved world of German literature even as he was battling deception, betrayal and murder. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

A literature professor who is an authority on Kafka, Itta Shedletzky, was also present and will compile an inventory of the contents of the boxes. Fate of Franz Kafka's literary heritage turns into nightmare ruled on by judge 2010-07-19T20:43:00Z

But among the interesting ideas he toys with is the notion that lying, as one interviewee puts it, “is the great theme of South American literature.” Books of The Times: ‘All Men Are Liars,’ a Novel by Alberto Manguel 2012-06-21T21:51:49Z

On the occasion of the fair, it is worth thinking about one of literature’s most important characteristics: its slowness. The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Taylor has written about the idea that a masculine aesthetic, developed over centuries, continues to define excellence in literature. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z

According to one study of children’s literature, male characters are featured “nearly twice as often in titles and 1.6 times as often as central characters.” Katniss is a hero for boys, too: My 11-year-old sons need more books and films like “The Hunger Games” series 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

The findings by Grazioplene and colleagues add to a growing literature on acetylcholine’s role in the emergence of schizophrenia and mood disorders. Do our genes make us more sensitive? 2013-01-24T22:40:00Z

I see Jonestown as a cautionary tale in terms of why black women are so invested in and indebted to organized religion. I hadn’t seen that in any of the existing literature. Jim Jones, deadly white savior: The tragic legacy of the Jonestown massacre 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

The beauty of literature reveals itself to you gradually, like the sun peeking out from behind a cloud, as opposed to a nuclear warhead blasting the sky into sudden fluorescence. Tonight I'm a rock'n'roll scribe: My stint in Sonic Youth, and other fun-packed fabrications 2010-04-08T14:10:00Z

Sarah Churchwell is a senior lecturer in American literature and culture at the University of East Anglia Naomi Alderman, novelist If I were a cow, nothing much would change my brain. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

He later pursued a degree in art and literature in Paris, joined a rock band and worked in a grocery store. The concert pianist who was discovered while working in a grocery store 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

The family said in a statement on Monday that Gordimer, who won the literature prize in 1991, died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Johannesburg on Sunday. Nobel Prize-Winning Author Nadine Gordimer Dies 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Another feature of this year's gathering will be an emphasis on Anglo-Saxon literature, music and art, in preparation for the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to Durham over the summer. All things connected to England's most northerly county celebrated at the Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering 2013-04-04T16:05:33Z

And if the new pulp is not mass entertainment, neither is it great literature. New pulp fictioneers are ready to rock'n'roll 2012-05-29T13:14:20Z

The literature with this prescription said my medication was manufactured in Amman, Jordan. Vitamin D solves pain problem | People’s Pharmacy 2012-12-07T02:20:05Z

This food talk is a reminder that “American Psycho” has yet to receive its full due as the most wicked and sustained mockery of the late-80s restaurant scene that we have in our literature. In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

He knits together the vocabularies of science and art, memory and prediction, literature and math, physics and emotion. Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

It was one of the things I studied that set off a real interest in this period of history and the literature surrounding the First World War. Kit Harington on the 'Teenage, Morbid Fascination' Behind His Latest Role 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

At the age of 30 Stella finally goes to university, and even begins a PhD in English literature. Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley – review 2013-05-01T11:00:02Z

This caused me to start looking at as much scientific literature I could get my hands on. I ‘self-experimented’ to compare a vegan diet with eating meat — this is what I found out 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z

Fifty-five years after its publication, “To Kill a Mockingbird” remains one of the most influential works in American literature, with global sales topping 40 million copies. Harper Lee Lawyer Offers More Details on Discovery of New Book 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Though “Mockingbird” won a Pulitzer Prize, like Buck’s “The Good Earth,” it is not typically considered part of the “serious” canon of literature. Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

The National Book Foundation hosted the award ceremony, presenting high literary nods to authors in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. These Are the Winners of the 2014 National Book Awards 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

I looked, as I had been instructed, for "the three writers under three years of age who capture the inventiveness and vitality of contemporary American pre-school literature", and I found not three. Shalom Auslander on the tyranny of literary talent-spotting 2012-09-28T11:59:01Z

In newspapers the space devoted to literature is now relatively stable after a dramatic decline over the past 10 years. What they're reading in France 2011-03-21T08:00:02Z

Indeed, literature is “the same as democracy and civilization,” he writes in a hyperbolic generalization that is typical of the book’s rhetorical pitch. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s, though, she became uncomfortable with what was happening to the teaching of literature. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

Politics aside, this book seems to represent everything that has gone amiss in Mo Yan's work, and perhaps in a broader way what has gone awry in China's literature of the last 30 years. Pow! by Mo Yan – review 2013-01-18T21:00:03Z

By the “humanities” he means the fields that study languages, literature, history, art and so on. Real Worlds, Possible Worlds and Fantasy Worlds 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

I was an established literature professor, and considered something of a Morrison scholar, when I decided to teach “Recitatif” in a modern American literature class. Sexist Silences and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Children's awareness over human rights issues is being deliberately targeted through literature because fiction is a way of starting a conversation, bringing normally unspoken or controversial subjects to life. Amnesty teen takeover: How can you become the hero? Discovering human rights through fiction 2012-08-22T11:19:17Z

To be transported, wholesale, into a new and unfamiliar world is one of literature’s great gifts, and the opening pages of David Hopen’s ambitious debut novel, “The Orchard,” promise exactly that. A Sheltered Teenager Moves to Miami and Learns a Few Things 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Paul Longmore, a Los Angeles historian who is researching images of disability in the arts, said that "very often in serious literature, disability is used as a metaphor for something else." Katherine Dunn has died; the 'Geek Love' author once took the world by storm 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

After all, human beings – I forget who said this – will do almost anything to avoid thinking; and aphorisms, more than any branch of literature, force us to do just that. The Lost Art of Losing by Gregory Norminton – review 2012-07-10T12:12:01Z

When confronted with this season’s tottering tower of new travel literature, I found it easy to sympathize with poor Pascal. Travel: Philip Marsden’s ‘Rising Ground’ and More 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

From then on, they were art buddies, soaking up music, literature and film together. Greg Kot at SXSW: P.S. I Love You rules 2011-03-16T17:18:56Z

We would have a world of Yiddish literature. Writing a novel about Jews set in 1942—without Hitler: “Once you mention Hitler’s name, his mustache is in the room. The stakes change” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Emmons said the fantasy show will include artifacts from film, television, literature, video games and comics. EMP Museum launches into future with four new exhibitions 2012-12-22T22:59:04Z

He studied for his master’s in English literature from Brooklyn College at night and wrote on weekends. Daniel Keyes, a Novelist of the Mind, Dies at 86 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

First, he said, a general theme — typically drawing on a historical period or classic literature — is established. With ‘Oliver Twist,’ a French Musical Aims Higher 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

“A Ladder to the Sky” reminds us that fine literature is often the only opportunity we have to spend quality time with truly ghastly people. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

But a full-fledged program for the study of masculinity, Dr. Kimmel said, would incorporate scholarship across disciplines — from social work to literature to health. A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

He was unequivocal when he got to his opinion of the work: “‘Ulysses’ is the most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the twentieth century,” he declared. The Rough Read That Was ‘Ulysses’ 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The Future Library isn't just a vault where pieces of literature will remain for a century. David Mitchell has a new book, but you'll have to wait 98 years to read it 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

And that, he argues, is also the problem with most of the literature about the Trump presidency. Does an Intellectual History of the Trump Era Exist? It Does Now 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Jessica Biel is in the process of rediscovering classic literature like F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night" and Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita." New portrait book 'Art of Discovery' examines celebrity inspiration 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tolstoy added that if the project was successful, he hoped to see new anthologies of American and European literature in Russian. Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

My introduction to writing was old-fashioned, traditional but my introduction to reading literature was just plain weird. You changed me: how my English teacher taught impeccable writing 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Jenkins said she would donate the fee she received from the book to We Need Diverse Books, a campaign that promotes diversity in children's literature. Children's book 'A Birthday Cake for George Washington' pulled over depiction of happy slaves 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Some authorities say it’s a question of distance—romance in literature, that is—” The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

“March,” also published by Top Shelf, proved popular with educators and became the first graphic novel to win the National Book Award for young people’s literature. Review | George Takei has talked about his family’s internment before. But never quite like this. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Her intention was to honor the letter as the great work of American literature that it is, but the resonance of its social critique and its gospel of love persuaded her to expand the offering. 'Never Givin' Up' recites MLK's 'Letter' to call for justice 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The elder Rizzo was, naturally, saved by his newly developed passion for literature, going on to become an enthusiastic if unpublished writer. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

It’s an absorbing cover-to-cover read, no surprise considering the artist’s roots in literature. Bliss and Anger in Balance: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Riley ended up doing a degree in English literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z

To connect the day’s latest outrage to a classic novel suggested that we’d seen Trump’s behavior before, that literature had anticipated his linguistic abuses, that his appeal could be understood. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Seven Stories is the only museum in the UK that specialises in children's literature. Seven Stories changes its name 2012-11-09T12:37:44Z

This is what literature does, what narrative offers, a way to consider the essential human dilemmas, the ones that never change. The death of writing? Not again 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

The Newbery is one of the world's top honours for children's literature and is considered to be the US equivalent of the British Carnegie Medal. Children's author EL Konigsburg dies 2013-04-22T08:33:09Z

But by literalizing this fact—by making print books the antidote for an actual disease—“The Word Exchange” comes dangerously close to arguing for literature as medicine. Reading in an Emergency 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Entering the gallery’s backyard, you step through the looking glass into a space dense with allusions to literature, history, anthropology and more. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

"It's established a wonderful exhibition programme to delight families and built up an outstanding archive of children's literature," she added. Seven Stories changes its name 2012-11-09T12:37:44Z

The short, fluid “I Hate Men” is part of a recent revival of anti-male sentiment in French feminist literature. With ‘I Hate Men,’ a French Feminist Touches a Nerve 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z

“With the poètes maudits I saw a strong relationship between rock and literature in a way that I don’t think is as obvious now, but was for me at the time,” Enriquez said. Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

That matters: Lewis's chair was in literature, not theology. CS Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath – review 2013-05-08T09:00:04Z

A rare and valuable Shakespeare First Folio, regarded as the most important book in English literature, has been discovered in a small French town. Shakespeare Folio found in France 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Inside are a cafe and space for events that bring together art, poetry, literature and film by emerging creators. Space Pod Alights at the Serpentine Gallery 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

As Alison Lurie, author and children's literature expert, says: "Sometimes we need to have the truth exaggerated and made more dramatic, even fantastic, in order to comprehend it." Why 2012 was the year of the fairytale 2012-12-24T08:30:01Z

And there are some ways in which the modernist critique of mass literature is just as trenchant today as it was back then. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Another asked me to repeat what I’d said about the first lines of "Pride and Prejudice" being among the most famous in all of literature. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

One thing that doesn’t get enough attention is the growing body of L.G.B.T.Q. literature in Turkey. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Segregation, whether social or artistic, could only work against women’s acceptance as equal to men: “Literature is literature, no matter who produces it.” Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Off to one side is a "liner building", a long oblong alongside Waterloo Bridge that contains a poetry library, a new literature centre and two restaurants. Southbank Centre revamp: at last a plan that deserves to succeed 2013-03-10T00:05:28Z

In the mid-1960s, she pursued a doctorate in English literature at multiple institutions, including Rutgers University, although she chose to write a novel, which was never published, instead of the required dissertation. Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

It’s a question that she intends her survey of art, literature and ideas to help us answer. ‘Know Thyself’ Review: The Evolution of a Culture 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

After all, dress, like music and films and literature, has long been used to deliver political messages and sway opinion. The Man in the Olive Green Tee 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

“We sat down and said, ‘What are the most neglected characters in literature?’” Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly on ‘Holmes & Watson’ and ‘Step Brothers’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

When British novelist Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel literature prize in 2007, she was too ill to travel. The $900,000 question behind Bob Dylan's Nobel prize 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

With ideas ranging from popular culture to politics, from contemporary literature to art movements, the magazine is as informative as it is transformative and unique. Age of Aquemini: “Spook” magazine, Afrofuturism, and confronting publishing’s white problem 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Some extraordinary literature has come out of this state, from all regions. Read Your Way Through Maine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Putting aside the question of ingenuity, the end result has most certainly been a boon for Irish literature. How a Tiny Literary Magazine Became a Springboard for Great Irish Writing 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

With only a tiny proportion of books published available in braille – well under 1% – the world's literature was not so much offered up to you as dangled in front of you. Digital books may not be for everyone. But for blind people, they're a true revolution 2012-08-17T21:00:01Z

In plainer terms, we read literature to have a good time. Martin Amis Is Committed to the Pleasure Principle in Books 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

The Brazilian was one of the true originals of Latin American literature. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

I know that kids aren’t flocking to Barnes & Noble to get their copies of the Icelandic sagas, but a lot of medieval literature is pretty weird and mystical and out there, and this stuff isn’t. ‘The Northman’ Wasn’t Easy to Make. But That’s How Robert Eggers Likes It. 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

I see lots of fairly well-trained clinicians who, because the concept is so embraced uncritically in the media and general literature, don’t know what to believe. Porn, addictive? There’s no proof 2014-02-16T01:00:00Z

Although it’s clear that some books are better than others by any objective standard, literature isn’t algebra. Chris Bohjalian Can Read for Hours in the Bath 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

His death was announced by Yale University, where he was the Sterling professor emeritus of English and comparative literature. Geoffrey H. Hartman, Scholar Who Saw Literary Criticism as Art, Dies at 86 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

“What did my family really know about literature or theater?” he thinks. From Saigon to the Suburbs, a Vietnamese-American’s Struggle to Assimilate 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Raised in San Diego, she studied literature at Yale and then enrolled at the Yale School of Drama. With the Volt Festival, the Playwright Karen Hartman Comes Home 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Streams of books converged into rivers that emptied into oceans of literature. Perspective | Keep your tidy, spark-joy hands off my book piles, Marie Kondo 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

It’s a pleasure to behold his phrases, free, as they are, from the constraints of the last several hundred years of literature and song. The Pure Weirdness of the Psychedelic-Rock Icon Roky Erickson 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

After high school Edim attended Howard University and immersed herself in black feminist literature. ‘Well-Read Black Girl’ Is Bigger Than Glory Edim 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

While “Damaged Glory” owes a debt to the postmodern irony that permeated experimental literature for a time, it thankfully doesn’t dwell in cynicism. Review | ‘Bojack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg expands his funny, melancholy empire 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Students could take courses in science, mathematics, history, economics, languages, and literature. Learn By Painting 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

The novel won the International Booker Prize and became a finalist for the National Book Award for translated literature, helping Tokarczuk, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize, gain a much larger global audience. Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

She received a doctoral degree in flute performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music. Caroline Sonett, Isaac Assor 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

The cases will be divided into six sections, devoted to art, history, literature, science, music and entertainment. A Childhood Hobby Matures Into a World-Class Collection 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

One of them is on display at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, which gathers the papers and artifacts of the creators of Southwestern literature. ArtsBeat: The Best Little Literary Paddle in Texas 2013-08-02T17:00:42Z

It is true, there is no shortage of self-help literature for the chronically overwhelmed. Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One. 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

There are so many examples in literature of novelists who've been helped by good editors. Zoe Kazan goes 'down a rabbit hole' with the movie 'Ruby Sparks' 2012-08-01T22:31:05Z

“We are shaping and helping to redefine what constitutes literature and making sure that our voices are heard,” she said. Conference for Black Writers at Medgar Evers College 2010-03-22T21:19:00Z

Nobel prizes are given annually to honor the highest achievements in science, literature and peacemaking. 3 win Nobel Prize in chemistry for world’s tiniest machines 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

You feel she is on her way to becoming an important character in recent Southern literature, Harper Lee’s Scout grown into something ambiguous and unruly. Review: In Nell Zink’s ‘Mislaid,’ a Lesbian on the Run Masquerades as Black 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

“It’s what my publisher calls comfort literature,” she said. Texas Monthly: Austin Writer Jacqueline Kelly Turns to ‘Willows’ Sequel 2012-10-21T02:53:58Z

Vaughters’s autobiography adds to a literature born of professional cycling’s glasnost period. Tales on Two Wheels: Cycling in Fact and Fiction 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Dylan is perpetually mentioned as a possible Nobel Prize in literature winner, but mostly on the strength of his song lyrics. New book of Bob Dylan lyrics to sell for $200 -- and $5,000 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

The realness of lived experience, pretty or not, is her great contribution to literature. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

The things that I love and things that I tend to read most are science fiction and mainstream literature, and those are what I love to write as well. Author Iain Banks: In his own words 2013-06-09T15:43:47Z

Alexander Dzurec with the architecture firm Autotroph Inc. filed the application for the height exemption and said Tuesday that the library was intended to house “a very sizable collection” of literature and “other collectibles.” George R.R. Martin can’t build castle library in New Mexico 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

But one would also like to read the saga of memory, that is, the version of the epic of “El Norte” through literature and fiction. Anglos, Hispanics and the Formation of America 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

We’re these two Americans playing two of the most famous characters of English literature. Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly on ‘Holmes & Watson’ and ‘Step Brothers’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

At one point the conversation turns to Lawrence Durrell and the Alexandria Quartet, the question being if the novels are Eastern or Western literature. Books of The Times: ‘Alif the Unseen’ by G. Willow Wilson 2012-06-24T18:21:35Z

Five finalists in four categories – young people’s literature, poetry, nonfiction and fiction – will be announced on Oct. Fiction Long List Announced for National Book Awards 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

On the larger plane, what is becoming increasingly apparent is that cuisine has appropriated literature’s power to shape popular tastes and public discourse. The kimchi revolution: How Korean-American chefs are changing food culture 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

He earned a degree in literature and drama from what was then called the University of Buffalo in 1950. Stuart E. Hample, Humorist and Cartoonist, Dies at 84 2010-09-24T05:18:00Z

The site's blog updates with inspiring quotations from writers, and Chestnykh — whose company, Coding Robots, is also working on blog editing and diary writing software — shows a love of literature. Do you write like Kurt Vonnegut or Judy Blume? Website analyzes text 2010-07-16T23:10:00Z

“I can’t think of a literature festival that hasn’t succeeded,” he said. India’s Literary Festivals Multiply Amid Anxiety Over Free Expression 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Gerry and his dying mother talk about Russian literature, and she leaves a final message tucked inside her copy of Oblomov. The Guard ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:41Z

Knowledge of literature is beneficial to critical thinking and moral health and should be an undertaking as serious and valuable as moneymaking or scientific advancement. Antjie Krog: Should Should power listen to poetry?| World Writers Conference 2012-09-26T09:47:23Z

What happens in most riveting literature is seldom located solely in plot. In ‘Memorial Drive’ a Poet Evokes Her Childhood and Confronts Her Mother’s Murder 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

In stark contrast to structuralism and its many offshoots, all of which are largely concerned with how literature either supports or subverts institutional power, creative criticism is all about the inner journey. ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The Page Is a World examines the world of children’s literature and artists’ contributions. How Childhood Inspires Artists and Their Art 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Neruda was a wonderful cook and was an expert on wine, an expert on literature, an expert on crime novels. Why the Movie ‘Neruda’ Is an ‘Anti-Bio’ 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

“It was a little bit more comfortable than adapting one of the world’s greatest pieces of literature, which, you know, has a smidge of pressure attached to it.” ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ showrunner explains how the Hulu series went beyond the book in Season 2 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Such essays,” the imaginary adulation goes, “change forever the way we think about literature.” Michael Dirda’s ‘Browsings’ offers meditations on the life of the mind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

We know little of what Bennedith consumes, whether it be food, literature, entertainment or clothing. In ‘Carnality,’ a Wild Ride Fueled by Rash Decisions 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

At a time of great formality in literature, he wrote irreverently, for everybody, from the perspective of orphans and outcasts. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z

The Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature. The biggest book news of the year 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Ms. Alexievich, 67, is the 14th woman to win the literature prize. Svetlana Alexievich Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

"She was one of our greatest writers and we can only marvel at her immense contribution to the body of world literature," Judge said in a statement. Australian author Patricia Wrightson dies at 88 2010-03-25T06:16:00Z

I owed that to myself and to literature. Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Another one for teens, Cross's rip-roaring tales of Finley Jayne takes elements of classic adventure literature and mixes them together with added mechanical gadgetry and supernatural elements in a fun, steampunk fantasy series. Sharon Gosling's top 10 children's steampunk books 2013-02-28T11:19:24Z

With blind, vengeful fury, he's rounding on the most discreet, distinguished figure of French language and literature. Nicolas Sarkozy, the murderer of the Princess of Cleves 2011-03-23T09:30:01Z

The persuasiveness of Kafka's narratives is almost entirely an effect of his style, which native German-speakers will assure us is well-nigh unique in German literature for its simplicity, control and directness. Rereading: John Banville on Kafka's other trial 2011-01-14T14:18:55Z

The last American writer to win a Nobel in literature was Toni Morrison in 1993. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z

A vast literature exists on nearly every aspect of the Civil War. The Hidden Story of the North’s Victory in the Civil War 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

Bernardine Bishop believed the critical appreciation of literature was important to a psychoanalytic understanding of the mind. Letter: Bernardine Bishop's passionate commitment to psychotherapy 2013-07-24T15:43:46Z

The novel took shape over seven years during which this former literature student left behind publishing jobs in New York and Hamburg and dared to think he might become a writer. Thomas Pletzinger: writing the world 2011-03-15T09:58:45Z

The literature award was the last of this year's Nobel Prizes to be announced. The Latest: Chilean president congratulates Dylan 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Lewis, and how its members changed the face of 20th-century literature. 30 books for spring reading 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Updike dismissed it as ‘entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest, aspirant form’. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

Englund's predecessor Horace Engdahl sparked outrage in U.S. literature circles two years ago when he dismissed American writers as "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture." Poets buzzed about for Nobel literature prize 2010-10-06T18:47:00Z

George Orwell's Animal Farm is one of literature's unexpected triumphs, and it tells a thousand truths that couldn't quite be told any other way. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

The slender volume is a classic of animal literature for the refinement of its prose, its dry wit, and its close, unblinking attention to the subtleties of human-animal interaction. | 'My Dog Tulip': A Tender Love Story Between Man and Dog 2010-08-31T22:37:00Z

Tents selling secondhand books spilled onto the lawns of the Inya Lake hotel, which was hosting the festival, while poets and writers crowded around picnic tables discussing art and literature. Burma literary festival flourishes under patron Aung San Suu Kyi 2013-02-03T19:30:37Z

We want readers to have access to the best of world fiction, in particular from languages and literatures under-represented in English. Independent foreign fiction prize 2013 shortlist announced 2013-04-11T11:24:22Z

Nelson Algren may be my favorite unappreciated genius of American literature. Nelson Algren: Unappreciated genius of American literature 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Through it Wilson presents a history of the period that is almost as ambitious as the Frog Service in its scope, touching variously on religion, colonialism, politics, science, literature and philosophy. The Potter's Hand by AN Wilson – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z

The poet's imagination is a vehicle traveling her through time and across realms, following roadmaps presented through literature and periodicals. A salute to "Dickinson" and its devotion to using notoriety to spotlight other unsung histories 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

For some reason, it's taking a lot longer than in literature and the visual arts to reach equilibrium. Why there are so few female composers 2012-02-08T19:15:59Z

Twenty-five years later a puckish French horn player warned me, a literature major who didn’t yet have an email address, that the future lay in something called “hyperlinks.” Move Over, Metaverse. Here’s Something Meaner. 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

"The whole piece — it's not quite performance, it's not quite sculpture, it's not quite literature, it's not quite any of those things," he says. Artist still pines for Prometheus, the Methuselah of bristlecones 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Travel guides, global literature and children’s books in French and Spanish as well as a number of language classes. Geek out over New York’s impressive array of specialty bookstores 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Black might be best known for his comedy, but he's no stranger to the world of literature. Michael Ian Black interviews (mostly) authors in new Audible podcast 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

But just as there are still readers capable of being tempted by literature, so do some find bliss in the subtle harmonies of coloristic shades and light effects. The Winning Card at Auction: Expressiveness 2010-05-07T11:30:00Z

“Online literature is really the people’s literature,” Mr. Ma said. Craving a Hot TV Show in China? Start Scouring the Web 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

He refused to do either/or, either genre or literature. 'I'm haunted by Ireland's ghost estates' 2012-07-27T09:28:48Z

At the very least you expect their fictional counterparts to exchange a little shoptalk and some thoughts on art, literature and the latest restoration techniques or maybe just gossip about Picasso’s latest mistress. Movie Review: Clooney and Company Hunt for Treasures in ‘Monuments Men’ 2014-02-06T22:43:48Z

It was Enriquez’s love of rock’n’roll that, in a sense, opened her to literature in the first place. Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

We may wonder about the literature that could be made by “silenced people,” who, in Olsen’s words, are “consumed in the hard everyday essential work of maintaining human life.” What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

“All we know is that he raged against death and for life and against the enemies of literature,” he wrote. A Dylan Thomas Centennial in New York 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The literature of his life has consisted mainly of academic biographies. A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

"Basically," he once said, "I'm interested in western literature and I'm fairly familiar with all of it." A brief survey of the short story part 46: Roberto Bolaño 2013-01-24T11:38:51Z

Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go duly took centre stage, in an entirely British film festival sort of a way, where literature prevails over the movies. London film festival ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

“The language is just so strong in the literature of the period,” said Manisha Sinha, a historian at the University of Connecticut who studies abolitionism, the Civil War and Reconstruction. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

The awards were given in architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, media, music, theater and visual arts. $50,000 for Meshell Ndegeocello and 33 Other U.S.A. Fellows 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

But in one of the more bizarre examples of literature influencing life I was guided by the Chalet School books, which I loved. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

The universe of the play — a haunted, violent patch of ground called Scotland — is as dark and scary as any place in literature or horror movies. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

“The Transcendental writers including Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne were very important to her view of literature,” Ms. Lee said. Bernadette Mayer, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 77 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

He has published books of poetry and children’s literature, and mounted shows of his paintings. ArtsBeat: Paul McCartney Collaborates With City Ballet 2011-02-23T19:28:55Z

In graduate school, Harvard, Aaron was among the first to complete a new program of study, American civilization, a melting pot of "history, literature, art and politics." Daniel Aaron, a pioneering scholar of American studies and the first president of the Library of America, has died at age 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Longing has always fueled literature, music and film. Long-distance couples are used to being apart — but not like this 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

"He's the one who introduced Latin-American literature in a serious way to the English-speaking world." Gregory Rabassa, translator of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, dies at 94 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

The five finalists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature are below. The 2017 National Book Award finalists 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

But several insightful critics used Cummins’s book to highlight the persistence of racist stereotypes in popular literature. Review | While offensive TV shows get pulled, problematic books are still inspiring debate and conversation 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

“Jews were studying it in a traditional pious way,” said Jeffrey H. Tigay, the Ellis professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Moshe Greenberg, Jewish Biblical Scholar, Dies at 81 2010-05-20T04:04:00Z

She graduated from Wellesley College and earned master’s degrees in medieval literature and in financial economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes scholar. Heather Long, Andrew Park 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

Reviewing a book called “The Faber Book of Seductions,” she writes: “If one were to judge English literature by this anthology one might wonder why plain women bothered to read books at all.” Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

And even without overly optimistic literature to inspire them, doctors and their lack of understanding can be an issue. Why can’t doctors tell cancer patients the truth? 2013-01-11T20:54:00Z

Q. Do you think children’s literature underestimates children? The Child in Tomi Ungerer, Evident in His Books, Remains Undimmed 2011-06-28T12:00:00Z

"To the contrary, a growing body of scientific literature indicates the opposite." California wineries, restaurants sue Newsom over in-person dining ban 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Your first choice, The Worst Journey in the World, is a classic of travel literature – a huge book, loved by many. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

He recognized that the Anglo-Saxon heritage was cramped by its bourgeois demand for a literature in which everything can be reasonably explained. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

It influenced many icons of Victorian literature and art. New Emma Lord mystery, fairy tales and a book of poetry 2014-03-24T19:27:29Z

But the scientific literature was only one front in that war. Anthony Fauci was ready for this. America was not. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

It's not unusual for works of literature to be rediscovered decades after they were written. Hans Keilson: "Genius? I'm not even a proper writer!" 2010-11-21T00:05:00Z

In that role, he selected and supervised a team of six scholars, each responsible for a specific period of English literature. M.H. Abrams, Who Shaped Romantic Criticism, Dies at 102 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Some of its previous picks were obscure even to literature experts, while others were widely celebrated authors decorated with numerous other awards. Swedish poet Transtromer wins Nobel in literature 2011-10-06T11:38:11Z

He previously edited coverage of books, literature and publishing and joined The Times in 2019 from The Wall Street Journal. A New Season in the New Normal* 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z

Unquantifiable arenas like history, literature, religion and the arts are receding from public life, replaced by technology, statistics, science and math. The United States of Metrics 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

The event – now in its fifth year – celebrates not just literature but theatre, film and music, as well as showing off Somaliland's local products from fruit to its version of Coca-Cola. Somaliland's Hargeisa book festival celebrates fifth year 2012-07-16T17:23:59Z

Other women came forward in the wake of Ms. Haenel’s account, highlighting abuse in the spheres of literature and sports. Adèle Haenel: France ‘Missed the Boat’ on #MeToo 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

You don’t have a sister, you wander through life and literature looking for your sister. My girl problems 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dover Books has long been an inexpensive purveyor of out-of-print genre literature. Michael Dirda’s Halloween book picks 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Born to ethnic Chinese parents in Indonesia, Mr. Tan was educated at the Chinese High School in Singapore, where he was immersed in the Chinese language and literature. A Multifaceted Singaporean Painter Breaks Barriers 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

By the time we uncovered the articles I was in graduate school, studying literature, expecting to spend my life talking and writing about fiction and writers. Matt Bondurant: 'We discovered Grandpa Jack had a dark history' 2012-08-25T23:05:49Z

Rubery, who teaches literature at Queen Mary University in London, is better at evoking the past. Audiobooks were set to destroy books — but instead, they opened a new world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

And of course ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ because Atticus Finch is the ideal father in literature.” Is Reading the New Therapy? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Whether literature inherits those rules or assigns them to itself, is swaddled by the Western canon or is, so to speak, self-swaddled, like the Oulipo, is immaterial, he believed. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The storied meaning of the word runs like a confluence into the literature of place. Read Your Way Through Missoula 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

He received two Guggenheim fellowships and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and for two years headed the arts endowment’s literature panel. Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Julian Barnes, writing in this week's Radio Times, identifies a specifically British problem about sex in literature. Good sex in literature: why is it so hard to find? 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z

Norman has been offered a job teaching literature at the University of Chicago and moves there with Jessie. A Father’s Love, Whether He Says Too Much or Not Enough 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

In these emails he links to articles on neo-Nazi websites, recommends racist literature and forwards conspiracy theories that cast non-whites and immigrants as violent criminals, and much worse. Finally, "The Man in the High Castle" fascist fantasy ends amidst America’s sobering reality 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

In literature and aesthetics the worldliness of Oxford's Wilde, Ruskin and Pater seems a universe away from Cambridge's Milton and Wordsworth. Stephen Fry recalls his student days for West End play: From the archive, 2 April 1988 2013-04-02T06:00:00Z

And as for literature, many prominent German-language writers, including those from Austria and Switzerland, are now living in Berlin. Read Your Way Through Berlin 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

Captivity and freedom are among the oldest and most adaptable themes in American literature. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

It was published more than a decade ago in Granta, a literary journal dedicated to embracing literature from all corners of the globe. Around the World in Books 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Tom is one of the great louts of American literature. “The Verificationist”: Donald Antrim’s unsung masterpiece 2012-06-17T16:00:00Z

And yet, a list such as 35 Over 35 renews my faith in the long haul, which is what literature, expression, is about. Celebrating late bloomers with 35 Over 35 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Settled with her new family in New Orleans, Adana discovers, like fortunate parents the world over, that literature is the best tether for her son’s wandering spirit. Generations of Exiles Collide in Post-Katrina New Orleans 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Paul, who’s now a professor of Russian literature at Michigan State, narrates the story and captures the loving, awkward dynamic between the men: Even in Hemingway’s Woods, Sometimes a Man Needs to Cry 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Are there things so powerful, so dreadful, that they are beyond the power of literature to describe? What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

My life was centered on writing and literature — in English. Motherlode Blog: Why I Won't Adopt 2012-02-23T16:25:44Z

"Fifty Shades of Grey", about a passionate relationship between literature student Anastasia and the manipulative entrepreneur Christian, was first published in 2011 and became a cultural phenomenon as it rocketed up the bestseller lists. Dakota Johnson, Charlie Hunnam to star in 'Fifty Shades of Grey' 2013-09-02T18:11:04Z

"Project Remix is all about fuelling that inventive spark, encouraging young people to view literature in fresh and exciting ways, putting creative control directly back into their hands." Blackman asks teens to 'remix' books 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Critic at Large David Kipen is a former Beltway denizen — he was the director of literature at the NEA — and he shares his thoughts about the president-elect and an American institution: the public library. Books: Loving libraries, now more than ever 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

He notes, on his blog, Superfluities Redux, that the US playwright Jeffrey Sweet recently made a similar argument about scripts not being literature in the comments of a recent New York Times blog. Noises off: On literature and the living wage 2010-06-08T16:18:00Z

The unanswered questions left by the correspondence go to show that while literature can emulate life pretty closely, life is seldom as neatly concluded as fiction. The private life of books 2010-04-07T10:16:00Z

Ten-year-old Judith McPherson is the latest in a long tradition of miserably unhappy children in literature. 'The Land of Decoration': Sad little girl pulls readers into her world 2012-04-18T22:56:04Z

It is judged not by athletes, film stars or social celebrities, but by writers who represent contemporary literature. Michael Holroyd looks forward to the 2013 David Cohen literature prize 2013-03-01T16:00:02Z

In works published over a 50-year career, Fussell wrote memoir, literary criticism, social commentary and standard English Department fare on topics such as English literature and poetic theory. Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88 2012-05-24T01:58:08Z

What do you tend to read more often — children’s literature or grown-up books? Kristin Cashore: By the Book 2012-07-06T17:36:04Z

He drolly describes it as “the comic high point of Goethe’s original play, and one of the most delightfully urbane moments in all of German literature.” Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Instead he presents a more murky, ambiguous tale of the dangerous ideological uses to which literature can be put, by its champions and its detractors alike. Theater Review: At the Vineyard, Reading Can Be Hazardous 2010-05-20T04:12:00Z

In combination with his own writings, or using fragments of literature as inspiration, Sullivan approaches photographs not as documents of a place or person but as visual stories that serve as poetic representations or metaphors. Jordan Sullivan’s “The Young Earth and An Island in the Moon” 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

The descent becomes more meditative and includes what may be the most realistic evocations of a storm in symphonic literature. L.A. Phil and Semyon Bychkov achieve a musical summit with 'Alpine Symphony' 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

He is at his best, however, when spanking those same literature majors for their condescension toward higher mathematics. Review: ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ Is Long on Knowledge 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

A swordsman, military strategist and painter born in the 1580s, he lives on eternally in the Japanese imagination as a superhero of folklore, literature, action movies and video games. | 'Musashi': From Hisashi Inoue, a Zen Comedy-Drama 2010-07-08T22:44:00Z

I understood how taking a weekly writing and literature course might be a luxury. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

She is the most infuriatingly manipulative woman in Western literature. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

“I defend the idea of reading over researching, which has this whole protocol that I don’t think applies to literature, which has its own relationship to truth.” A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Not unless you want to have more than 500 pages of relentless socialist manifesto, masquerading as literature, crammed down your throat. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z

The bride, 29, is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at the City University of New York. Mary Brunelli, Christopher Edgar 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

I was surprised to learn you’d almost studied Russian literature instead of law. At 79, activist Marian Wright Edelman keeps fighting for what’s right 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

The literature date completes the schedule for this year's Nobel Prize announcements, which start Monday with the medicine prize, followed by physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Literature Nobel to be announced Oct. 13, later than usual 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

They are spare, resonant, sometimes drawing upon or alluding to the writers and works of literature that have sustained Swett: Robert Frost, Sappho, “King Lear.” The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

To feel personally insulted when reading old books struck me as provincial, against the spirit of literature. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

So why not remove the annual obligation and, instead, award the Nobel Prize in literature only when a truly world-class author arises? Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

“But there’s not much good data in the scientific literature to support it,” Dr. Hamer said. 5 Tips to Sleep Better on Your Next Trip 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

The annual National Book Award is divided into four categories: fiction and non-fiction, poetry and young people's literature. McBride wins US National Book Award 2013-11-21T16:41:07Z

He studied literature history, poetics, the history of religion and psychology at Stockholm University, and later divided his time between poetry and his work as a psychologist. Swedish poet Transtromer wins Nobel in literature 2011-10-06T11:38:11Z

Sarah Churchwell, senior lecturer in American literature and culture at the University of East Anglia, welcomed the publication as a reversal of censorship. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z

The unofficial title of the session was “Kimchi is taking over,” and the takeaway was that the kimchi revolution is not limited to literature. The kimchi revolution: How Korean-American chefs are changing food culture 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

Rowling’s response this week defended her belief that “The sharing of art and literature across borders constitutes an immense power for good in this world.” J.K. Rowling Uses Dumbledore to Explain Why She Opposes Israel Boycott 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

“When he was in school and in his early undergraduate years he realized that without stories, without literature, a language will die,” he said. Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Has literature ever produced a better, nobler character? July's Reading group: To Kill a Mockingbird 2013-07-03T16:11:06Z

To supplement her writing income, she teaches — she’s currently teaching writing and literature seminars at Boston University, Brooklyn College and the New School. With ‘The Friend,’ Sigrid Nunez Becomes an Overnight Literary Sensation, 23 Years and Eight Books Later 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Ulin engaged Smith in a wide-ranging discussion that included literary technique and the social and political contexts in which literature is written and experienced. Zadie Smith, in Los Angeles, says 'I am a voyeur' 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Possibly in children's literature – some lyrical passages in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, or some boating episodes in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series – and possibly in romantic comedy. Where is happiness in 20th-century fiction? 2013-05-27T10:51:21Z

“One reason that literary fiction becomes so anti-image,” she says, “is that it’s a way of distinguishing itself from children’s literature.” Perspective | Illustrated novels have a vibrant history. A rich new era may be upon us. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

Egyptian food, pastries, papyrus art, jewelry, souvenirs, Coptic Christian art, icons, literature, sponsored by St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church of Lynnwood, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Community calendar 2011-08-31T23:22:04Z

There are works that explore cross-dressing and transgender issues, which were also themes developed in the literature of Spain’s Golden Age. At the Prado, Love That Now Dares to Shout Its Name 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Soffin said there's a chance that snippets of famed literature still "might return" to New York subways, but no precise plans are in the works. NYC subway service ads replace poetry, literature 2010-12-25T21:01:05Z

Prizes have little to do with literature in the long run, but I feel that this stunt cheapens her memory and takes seriously something for which she probably didn't give two hoots. Is the 'Beryl Bainbridge Booker' a good thing? 2011-02-13T00:05:32Z

That was the scene Wednesday night at the Library of Congress where lovers of literature gathered for the final lecture by U.S. U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reappointed to second year 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

But my relationship to the literature of Louisiana goes deeper, back to my childhood. Patter and Patois 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Was it the reinvention of, or the cheapening of, our culture’s relationship to literature? Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z

According to the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, no composer since Beethoven has done more to invigorate the symphonic literature, with the exceptions of Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

The organization sprang up after the Swedish Academy said in May that it would postpone the Nobel in literature for a year. With No Nobel Prize in Literature This Year, Another Award Steps In 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Xiaobo was a rising star at Beijing Normal University, where he was earning his doctorate in literature. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

His approach illuminates, because no detail is redundant: Mrs Norris scolding the carpenter's son, or Mr Perry's children eating wedding cake, or Captain Benwick's taste in literature. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z

The cultural things we fight over — food, neighborhoods, music, literature, the flag, the national anthem — are symbols of that history. Cultural appropriation: It's about more than pho and sombreros 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Epstein could be described as a man of letters with a feel for commerce or as a man of business with a taste for fine literature, and both would be correct. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

When you hear “Fort Lauderdale,” literature might not be the first thing that springs to mind. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

"People don't universally understand that literature does more than inform and educate, it takes children from the particular to the abstract, an essential skill for GCSEs and university, and for achievement," he said. Spending cuts put libraries at risk, authors warn 2010-10-20T14:42:00Z

Rather, he has always been bright and witty, with an air of sophistication that led him to explore his love of world history, classical art, modernist literature and a worldly taste in cuisine. Queering Appalachia — finding chosen families online in an unforgiving landscape 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

The set of books that is taught again and again, broadly across the country, is referred to by literature scholars and English teachers as "the canon." Will high school "classics" be replaced? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

America was living under a cloud of fear created by the House Un-American Activities Committee and McCarthyism, which brought political repression, blacklists and censorship of literature and art. Why ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Is the Book for Our Social Media Age 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

It’s kind of unnerving when that work of literature is a graphic novel called My Friend Dahmer. My Friend Dahmer: The Unspeakable Horror of Life in the 1970s 2012-03-28T10:45:09Z

The book was ‘the vilest, according to ordinary standards, in all literature. And yet its very obscenity is somehow beautiful and wrings the soul to pity.’ Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style

“What’s astounding is that people, having never come close to reading Greek literature, will hear this once and, in the talkbacks, quote things characters have said. It’s been seared into them.” Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

SAT Art, literature and bands from Ballard High School, 6 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-05-01T04:01:43Z

This series of spoken literature by noted local actors returns to greet 2013 with selections by several famed 19th-century American authors. Three things we love this week 2013-01-25T01:01:50Z

"I write from a place of deep passion, joy and commitment to producing the highest possible quality of literature for children,"she says. Monica Brown's Latino focus inspires kids 2011-11-05T04:46:37Z

Much early myth and literature — Aeschylus’s “Eumenides” is a good example — dramatizes the displacement of matriarchal religions by new belief systems privileging male deities. Review | ‘Women Who Fly’: a tale of female emancipation through the ages 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

He still called his literature “proletarian,” only his version expressed a sense of terminal alienation, the collateral damage of his rootless, transpacific existence. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Iyer is known primarily for his travel writing, his erudite essays on literature, and his wise, restrained accounts of his Buddhist-inflected striving for stillness and contentment. Pico Iyer’s Japanese Love Story, from Spring to “Autumn Light” 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

Both are valuable additions to the Watergate literature, though the 2005 revelation that “Deep Throat” was the F.B.I.’s W. Mark Felt refutes Mr. Dean’s assertion that Alexander M. Haig Jr. was the leaker. In ‘The Nixon Defense,’ John W. Dean Returns to Watergate 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Like a lost work of 18th-century literature, it is at once ardent and rigorous, passionate and philosophical. ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Review: A Brush With Passion 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

And further back: Mary Shelley, whose “Frankenstein” marks a kind of Year Zero for industrialized modernity’s impact on literature. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

“Is it possible that the Nobel committee might finally reverse the ignoble treatment of what we call ‘nonfiction writing’ and admit that it is literature?” Svetlana Alexievich Is Rare Nonfiction Winner of Nobel 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

A high-profile crowd — a mix of personalities from the worlds of literature, art, fashion and politics — flocked to the hotel from the beginning. An Enduring Paris Hotel in a New Light 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

In “Gaudy Night,” a classic of the golden age of detective fiction by Dorothy L. Sayers, the heroine, Harriet Vane, wonders whether mystery novels can ever rise to the level of literature. An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

There are many ways to consider a problem via literature, of course; some methods are merely more effective than others. In Yuri Herrera's hard-boiled 'The Transmigration of Bodies,' dirty work is providence 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Rather than driving “Little House” fans to distraction by diminishing or disparaging the literature they treasure, Fraser declares her respect and affection for it. ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and the Truth About the American West 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, she appears nowhere in the canon of African-American literature. “True Love”: The Victorian (re)discovery that transformed our understanding of black women’s literature 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

One might say this is the key to all transgressive literature, to make transgression acceptable, or at least visible, to erode those “fortresses of propriety” that lock our truest selves away. Missing the point of the reality of fiction 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

As a result, Mouawad suggests, the exile’s eyes are opened to other possibilities, such as theater and literature. A playwright’s self-imposed exile 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

The teacher — a young, “jubilantly eccentric” White woman — presents “Invisible Man” to the class, introducing Ralph Ellison’s seminal novel as “the cornerstone of all African American literature.” Review | In ‘Boyz n the Void,’ a ‘malcontent with an allergy to authority’ finds freedom — and confusion — in the punk rock scene 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Archibald Clybourn was one of the earliest settlers in the area, said Bill Savage, who teaches Chicago literature and history at Northwestern University. Integration, Gentrification, Conversation 2011-08-06T20:00:48Z

Rabbits, floppy eared and fluffy tailed, have played a disproportionately large role in children’s literature, and there are many storybook predecessors of Roger to choose from. The Parent Who Wants to Fall Asleep 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

And, to be sure, there needs to be an actual cash economy of literature if writers and publishers are to survive. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

Are there works of literature so beloved, so foundational to who we are, that they deserve to be classified as National Historic Landmarks, forever protected from garish rehab or wholesale demolition? No way to treat an author: How Harper Lee lost control of her legacy. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

This novel may have been written by someone best known as a comedian, but it is a proper novel because it deals with big themes such as literature, love and illness. The Death of Eli Gold by David Baddiel ? review 2011-03-05T00:07:11Z

Shall we talk about the digital literature first? After e-literature, there’s no going back 2012-10-29T11:30:00Z

In looking at the literature inspired by the war, he ponders just what makes a “good” war story. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Hetherington was born in Liverpool, England, and studied literature and photojournalism at Oxford University. 'Restrepo' director Hetherington killed in Libya 2011-04-20T22:00:11Z

She scoured literature, art, philosophy and psychology to describe how society often attaches a moral dimension to illness. Perspective | The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

The manuscripts, mostly from the 14th to 16th centuries, covered a wide variety of subjects: science, medicine, history, philosophy, literature and more. Meet ‘The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Unlike science fiction or rock and roll or fantasy literature or superheroes, Mad could never escape its ghetto, by design. A World Without Mad Magazine 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

The conference was organized by Read Russia, an American nongovernmental organization partly sponsored by the Russian government that promotes Russian literature in translation. Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Then again, for the last couple of years, Bob Dylan has been on the betting list for the Nobel Prize in literature. Will Don DeLillo win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

There will be some information about scenes from classical literature. Tate Britain: On the move 2013-05-03T18:40:01Z

One editor, he recalled, argued against it because his grandmother, who counted herself an expert on 19th-century literature, had never heard of Douglass. Charles F. Harris, 81, Dies; Led Effort to Publish Work by Black Writers 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Still, she disagreed with Mr. Ghosh about the novelty of the ascendance of South Asian literature. ArtsBeat: Indian Fiction Rising 2011-07-06T13:53:24Z

What he does is almost literature, and this record is a natural extension of who he is as a writer. Craig Finn of the Hold Steady on ?Clear Hearts, Full Eyes? 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z

Cinema and literature remind us that our resources are finite, our demons many, and that despite our capacity for wonder we possess the conceit and folly to turn the planet into a vicious Darwinian struggle. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

She had a string of top grade GCSEs from Howell's School in Cardiff - including an A* in music, French and history, and As in geography, maths, English literature and English language. Church to study for physics degree 2014-03-12T14:40:46Z

They put out just about everyone who was anyone; they were, put simply, the paperback publisher, picking and choosing from the best of world literature. How imprints left a lasting impression | Stuart Evers 2010-03-31T12:00:00Z

Considering the time and circumstances under which he wrote, perhaps Chinua Achebe sensed that his work would become, for a generation of Africans, both literature and history. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z

If you think that this is an interesting reading experience — that Cohen has replicated the manic confusion of trying to produce literature in the digital age — then you may well enjoy “Book of Numbers.” ‘Book of Numbers,’ by Joshua Cohen: TMI? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Part of the reason is its literature, he argues. Authors prepare to mark centenary of first world war with flood of new books 2013-06-09T08:30:02Z

But where the ensemble showed its qualities most acutely — the beauty of the strings, the sheer virtuosity among other instruments — was in the standard orchestral literature in the second program, on Monday. Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Delivers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

In one powerful book after another, she has carved Indians’ lives, histories and stories back into our national literature, a canon once determined to wipe them away. Review | With ‘The Night Watchman,’ Louise Erdrich rediscovers her genius 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

The National Book Foundation announced finalists for the awards, which are among the most prestigious in U.S. publishing, in four categories - fiction, non-fiction, young people's literature and poetry. Thomas Pynchon, James McBride among National Book Award finalists 2013-10-16T14:09:09Z

He’s no less indebted to literature: his fondness for Gothic fiction like Mary Shelley’s “Last Man” and Richard Jefferies’s “After London” comes across in the after-the-fall ambience of some of his films. Ben Rivers’s ‘Two Years at Sea’ and ‘Slow Action’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z

By picking Dylan, it made a bold gesture to expand the definition of “literature.” Why Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to the book world 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Patrick Modiano, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, is a paradox. Patrick Modiano, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, is a paradox

After school she went to study in Jerusalem, a university course that combined French linguistics and literature. Esther Perel: 'Fix the sex and your relationship will transform' 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

The main source for most of us, then, is the large and influential literature about Noh. Noh theater: The world's oldest stage tradition is popping up everywhere 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Walton Muyumba is the author of “The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism” and a literature professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. Rap’s Radical First Act 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

A few months after this Damascene moment – the most famous conversion in modern Chinese literature – Lu Xun abandoned his medical studies and began a career as self-appointed literary physician to China's spiritual ills. Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Canada, France, U.K. and Australia to provide a list of the best Partition films, literature or art. 5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

As well as drawing upon the traditions of fantasy literature, Martin explains how the "grittiness" of real English and Scottish history influenced his world of Westeros. VIDEO: Machiavelli and Game of Thrones 2013-12-02T12:56:18Z

Gollum appears in a chapter that has gone on to be one of the most memorable in all of fantasy literature. Ian McKellen to return as Gandalf in "The Hobbit" 2011-01-10T23:30:04Z

Rather, he considers it a way to spark interest in new literature -- and to inspire new authors as well. The Summer Writing Project begins today 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Two, because dystopian literature lets us simulate our worst imaginings from the private security of our own homes, the better to avoid them in the real world. Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

In 1959, he returned to Britain and joined the ITV company Granada, where his love of literature was given plenty of opportunity to thrive. Peter Phillips obituary 2011-02-21T19:02:18Z

The world contains millions of pieces of literature and all of them speak to different people in different ways. Review | The surprising — and surprisingly funny — lessons one woman learned from Russian literature 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The ideal woman of history and literature is the silent one, the one who is obedient to a fault. Our trainwrecks, ourselves: Why women hate on hot messes and other toxic female tropes 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

It is the most precise piece of visionary writing in European literature. From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy 2013-05-14T15:44:06Z

And again and again, empires fall and literature continues. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

“An Unnecessary Woman” is a meditation on, among other things, aging, politics, literature, loneliness, grief and resilience. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls,’ and More 2014-02-26T21:15:54Z

The National Book Awards, which are administered by the National Book Foundation, were established in 1950 to celebrate the best of American literature. Writers Phil Klay and Evan Osnos win top National Book Awards 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

As a species of literature, art gallery exhibition catalogs usually fall into one of three categories, none of them good. Books of The Times: ‘112 Greene Street: The Early Years,’ ’70s Art in SoHo 2012-07-25T19:44:03Z

“Because we are told that the show is real, the viewer accepts that it is,” said Hiroaki Mizushima, a TV critic for Yahoo News Japan and a literature professor at Sophia University in Tokyo. The Fall of ‘Terrace House’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

“I knew it had to be by a new student because nobody in our class at the time could paint like that,” he told The Horn Book, a magazine about children’s literature. Leo Dillon, Illustrator of Children’s Books, Dies at 79 2012-05-31T04:57:16Z

Joyce is also using the novel's structure and language to experiment with form and challenge established ideas of what literature should look like. The Brontës, Shelleys & Kingsley and Martin Amis: Research suggests relatives share writing styles 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

In an email interview, Schweblin discussed the avoidance of technology in literature, the surreal nature of her work and how she thinks quarantine is affecting us. Samanta Schweblin Talks About Her Creepy New Novel 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Topics: , , , , , Writers on writing, , Beowulf, , English literature, How to write Poetry, Hi Cary, I’m a nonfiction writer who has dabbled  in fiction writing over the years. How do I start writing poems? 2013-02-22T01:00:00Z

And the literature that emerges in the age of communications technologies – modernist literature – is this cult's expression, its record, its holy script. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

More than 130 years after the publication of Mark Twain’s masterpiece — a novel that Hemingway called the beginning of “all modern American literature” — we still don’t know. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are back — and all growed up 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Modern Hebrew literature—its beats and its tenor, its themes and its subjects—was a source of pride, as broad in range as it was particular. Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

It falls open at the Secunda Pastorum – the second shepherds' play – which must be one of the most subversive pieces of literature ever written. Season's readings: Secunda Pastorum by Alfred W Pollard 2010-12-20T10:43:33Z

Blending historical fiction, magical realism and a lyrical sense of place, her recent work confounds neat distinctions of genre and has established her as a leading voice in global anglophone literature. Painting a vibrant and lush portrait of the 16th-century Ottoman empire 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

I think children’s literature, especially like the middle grade and YA, is really flourishing. For this young adult author, girls want more than to just have fun 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

It was at school that his interest in literature was formed. Rupert Thomson: a life in writing 2013-03-08T10:00:01Z

In a bid to make the most of that interest, George is launching, in September, what seems to be the world's first master's degree in vampire literature. University conference sinks its teeth into vampire fiction 2010-04-05T23:05:00Z

This is great literature: Shame on us for only now discovering it. 'Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction' yields writing of strangeness and beauty 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

The Anglo-Saxon epic “Beowulf” has a historic place in English literature. ‘Beowulf’ Gets a 21st-Century Update 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Faulkner’s is among the most masterly work American literature has produced. The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Together, they paint, discuss literature, and spend time with her children. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

This is where “The Marriage Plot”’s titular enjambment of literature and love — those two beleaguered institutions — is so clarifying. Riff: ?Why Write Novels at All?? 2012-01-13T22:19:00Z

So, the question is not indeed if literature should be political. Can Agatha Christie be political? 2013-05-27T15:14:54Z

If Ukraine survives, it will create even more militant literature. A Humorous Ukrainian Writer, With Nothing to Laugh About 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Her behavior raises more questions than it answers, as does the rest of the novel, which leaves readers hungry for even more insight into a country and culture rarely considered in Western literature. Review | In ‘Mama Hissa’s Mice,’ three Kuwaiti boys find solace in fables 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Jesse's relationships with this trio bring to mind two great stories about literature and learning, Lionel Trilling's Of This Time, of That Place and JD Salinger's For Esme – with Love and Squalor. Liberal Arts – review 2012-10-06T23:05:35Z

The best literature of war offers the profound realism of war’s universal defeat. Isn’t Trump supposed to be commander-in-chief? 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian A couple of weeks ago, David Jays asked here at the Guardian whether plays counted as literature. Noises off: On literature and the living wage 2010-06-08T16:18:00Z

The Nobel Prize in literature can be a boon for publishers throughout the world. Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Talking about classics of romantic literature, he added, “Part of the appeal is that the language still has a rich, sometimes poetic phrasing that a modern film has a tough time matching.” Another Hike on the Moors for ?Jane Eyre? 2011-03-05T04:23:01Z

He immersed himself in Islamic literature, and quickly came to the conclusion that he needed to learn Arabic in order to continue his studies. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z

In love with literature, Berlioz wrote music directly inspired by favorite poets and playwrights, among them Virgil, Byron, Gautier and, above all, Shakespeare. Seattle Symphony to stage Berlioz's hard-to-categorize 'Faust' 2012-06-14T20:48:09Z

His pronouncements on literature were always trenchant: "To write seems to me easier than trying to avoid the feeling of meaninglessness that not writing brings"; or "Literature doesn't tell stories, but ways to tell stories". Rodolfo Fogwill obituary 2010-08-27T17:10:00Z

For the Turkish-educated elite, a sound knowledge of Persian language and literature remained a mark of cultural distinction well into the 19th century. Turkey Reawakening to Its Vast Iranian Ties 2010-04-23T11:35:00Z

The Nobel Prize in literature always eluded him, although he was a frequent contender. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T12:44:00Z

She immersed herself in contemporary Arab literature and became a passionate advocate for the Palestinian cause. Barbara Harlow, Scholar on Perils of Resistance Writing, Dies at 68 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Maria DiBattista, a professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton and a former colleague of Mr. Hynes’s, said of him in an email: Samuel Hynes Discusses His Book ‘The Unsubstantial Air’ 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

This is a revolutionary moment in literature, happening in real time. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Geraint Lewis / Rex Features ✒This week the £40,000 David Cohen prize for a lifetime's achievement in English literature – the closest thing British letters has to a Nobel – was awarded to Hilary Mantel. Why Hilary Mantel deserves another prize 2013-03-08T09:52:28Z

By 25, Martí was a marquee name in Latin American politics, journalism and literature. ‘José Martí,’ by Alfred J. López 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Tracking the changes wrought upon works of literature by the movies has, in the past, been a rather specialized pursuit, confined mainly to pedants. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

They came not long after books like Gore Vidal’s “The City and the Pillar,” Truman Capote’s “Other Voices, Other Rooms” and James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” — literature catered to a straight audience, and teeming with shame. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

Now he believed that theory, frozen into formula, was the addiction of academic critics "who seem largely to have lost interest in literature as such". Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z

Rather than concentrating on case studies … she turns to art and literature.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Kipen is the former literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Introducing the L.A. Times Critics-at-Large 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

‘E.T.’ is as contemporary as laser-beam technology, but it's full of the timeless longings expressed in children's literature of all eras.” Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Self-aware animals such as Poonachi play a curious role in literature. Review | Perumal Murugan said his career as a novelist was dead. Lucky for us, he was wrong. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Yet many parents despair that their kids are reading comics, believing that comics are a lesser form of literature. Corner: Drawing on comics can boost kids' brainpower 2011-06-22T21:08:44Z

This worldly sensibility found expression in an outpouring of remarkably vibrant and innovative works of literature and art, which in turn heralded “a revolution in the cultural marketplace.” How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Through Shankar, George began to steep himself in the literature of Eastern religion and philosophy. How George Harrison's lifelong quest for spiritual enlightenment shaped his music and life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

The library of his New York townhouse, with its towering bookcases, a portrait of George Eliot and a photo of the Chekhov family, was a shrine to literature. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

The Riverside curators decided to pursue a sci-fi theme to build on the university’s large collection of science fiction and fantasy literature. For Latino Artists in Sci-Fi Show, Everyone’s an Alien 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

“These modern Americans are so good at making the reader feel human — they think literature connects us all,” Daria comments. Sex, Drugs and Marxism in ‘Class’ 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

What are we to make of the intense religiosity of so much great English literature, in our own more diverse and secular society? Poets enlist for quest to pull St George from jaws of far right 2011-01-24T00:05:10Z

We loved theater and movies, literature and computers. Alan Turing's story the perfect fit for 'Imitation Game' scriptwriter 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

“If Russian literature appears and is read then maybe it will help people understand the way we think,” Mr. Tolstoy said after the conference. Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Sarah Churchwell, professor of American literature at the University of East Anglia, who is writing a book called Careless People about the events that inspired The Great Gatsby, agrees. Gatz to deliver every word of The Great Gatsby on West End stage 2012-02-08T15:43:41Z

Mr. Barris, who liked to read classic literature and paint in his spare time, was under no illusion about what he had created for television. Chuck Barris, ‘Gong Show’ host, author of ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,’ dies at 87 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Among his talents for creating comedy, writing literature and playing the banjo, Steve Martin also possesses an eye for art. ArtsBeat: Forged Painting Was Once in Collection of Steve Martin, German Police Say 2011-05-31T15:24:54Z

Mr. Diaz’s long study of North American literature, much of it steeped in the 19th century, allowed him to expertly plunder an antique genre for parts. A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

It’s just a shame that for the longest time they weren’t thought of as great works of literature, which they can be and are. Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Claudel explores the appeal of the Kafkaesque at the beginning of the 21st century and the importance of reading literature written in languages other than our own. Guardian Books podcast: Literature in translation and water stories 2013-03-15T14:06:09Z

He also sang Liszt’s “Three Sonnets of Petrarch” — known in the opera world as one of the few bits of the song literature that Luciano Pavarotti mastered. Tenor dazzles in a recital with an emotional wallop 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

But the singer, who died Sunday, was also devoted to literature. Remembering David Bowie through his 100 favorite books 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

These are the same questions society is asking about other fields of cultural endeavor, from film and literature to music and comedy; from the media and medicine to business and politics. Perspective | How Hannah Gadsby’s evisceration of Picasso helped her change stand-up comedy 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Assured on musical aspects, Breithaupt rightly deals with the lyrics as literature. Reading Steely Dan: The lyrical genius that helped define a decade 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think literature can save people, but it can be liberating,” she said. People Like Her Didn’t Exist in French Novels. Until She Wrote One. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

The London Olympics was the turning point for me of looking internationally and of the power of literature to tell the truth. North Korean 'court poet' to publish memoir 2013-05-01T11:21:21Z

When Mr. Louis was 8, his father, impoverished by the Depression, placed him in an orphanage, where he stayed for several years and developed interests in music and literature. Murray Louis, Choreographer With a Comic Flair, Dies at 89 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the problem is that we have just become too comfortable with images of violence, whether visual or descriptive, that populate our screens and literature – from the trial of OJ Simpson to the Black Dahlia. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, why are dead women’s bodies still being used as entertainment? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

The study of English literature was still tightly patrolled by what Bellow later called “hostile American WASPs.” ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

It assumes many two-sided forms: trial / try, high / low, literature / journalism, formal / familiar, French / English, Eyquem / Ockham. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s got a reflective element you see more in literature than music — consideration of a life lived, choices made.” The 18-Year Wait for New Wrens Music Is Over. Sort Of. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Fantasy illustration developed in parallel to fantasy literature in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

On the other hand, Cage was in some ways the least focused of composers, ranging restlessly through musical styles and the sounds of silence, and venturing into the worlds of literature, dance and visual art. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

“A stupendous work, literature of a high order,” Publishers Weekly wrote about “The Republic of Dreams” in 1991. Nélida Piñon, Provocative Brazilian Novelist, Is Dead at 85 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

Related: Close up: Jean-Luc Godard pronounces film dead Godard is as revolutionary and influential a hinge-figure in cinema as Joyce was to literature and the cubists were to painting. Jean-Luc Godard: a beginner's guide 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

And what about the idea, defended by decades of feminists, that literature that encompasses sex helps us to talk about sexism? What Kind of Town Bans Books? 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

I went towards the genres because I found nothing in literature that characterized women I wanted to read about – whole people, not just caricatures.” ArtsBeat: Pull Up a Throne and Let's Talk 2011-04-19T15:17:49Z

After the success of The Fault in Our Stars, Divergent and The Hunger Games, there has been a lot of interest in young adult literature, but you’ve been writing YA for years. Author Blake Nelson: Why YA Novels Make Reading Fun Again 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Handwritten tributes cellotaped to the store thanked Whitman for his generosity in providing a haven for "aficionados" of literature or apologized for not finishing novels. American dean of Paris literary scene dies at 98 2011-12-15T14:10:23Z

For a long time, people didn’t love literature. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

The Bronx-born son of a garment worker, Professor Bloom might have been a character out of literature himself. Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

I teach literature and writing at two universities, and just this semester I had one student who soldiered through her final coursework while celebrating an engagement and dealing with her alcoholic mother. My college students aren’t “snowflakes” — they’re tougher than their critics could imagine 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

“There is quite a lot of comic literature in Austria which didn’t travel a lot because the canon of German literature is still very much formed by northern Germany,” he says. In His New Book, Daniel Kehlmann Says Hello to a Cruel World 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Before that encounter, I was the experienced reader of white literature I’d been taught to be. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

She received a master’s degree in English and comparative literature from Columbia. Jennifer Brier, Alexander Chassin 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

“I opened it up at first and thought, Oh, more of the same,” said Edmund White, an elder statesman of gay literature. Garth Greenwell Comes Clean 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

A Nobel Prize committee member about Bob Dylan’s refusal to acknowledge receiving the literature award: “One can say that it is impolite and arrogant.” Style Invitational: Don’t be afraid of the dark — a song parody contest 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Compared to Winston Churchill, who won a Nobel prize for literature, and left the landscape of English prose on fire with inspiration, Thatcher is a non-starter. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z

"Mr. Murakami is a person whose work and how he developed his literature are a subject for scholarly study," he said. Haruki Murakami's library list is published, and Japanese librarians are up in arms 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Faulkner’s work, Gorra writes, “contains the richest gallery of characters in all of American literature, and in his handling of time and consciousness Faulkner stands as one of his century’s most restless experimenters.” The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Tharp gets excited when she talks about literature. dance: Tharp Is Back Where the Air Is Rarefied 2010-03-05T21:17:00Z

To spend more time reading works of fine literature and watching cult movies; to spend less time on Facebook and reading the gossip pages or football transfer news. Not so super: why Hollywood's cinematic universes are on the way out 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Professional but clandestine labs are rifling the scientific literature for new psychoactive drugs and synthesising them as fast as the law changes. Why the war on drugs has been made redundant 2013-06-15T23:05:01Z

That we have publishers mining the dregs of his work for another book because he has this roguish reputation further degrades serious literature and insults those who care about poetry of real merit. Letters to the Editor 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

And to many in the Chinese-speaking world, “Dream of the Red Chamber” is that and more, widely regarded as a masterpiece — if not the masterpiece — of Chinese literature. An American Opera Company Adapts China’s ‘War and Peace’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

That even powerful people failed to blow the whistle on a clearly depraved scene is a puzzle of group behavior that maybe only literature can begin to address. She Survived a Tough Childhood. Then She Met Jeffrey Epstein. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

To celebrate Alexievich’s win as a long-overdue recognition of reportage as a form of literature equal to fiction, poetry, and playwriting is anything but a snub to the particular powers of those other forms. Nonfiction Wins a Nobel 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to reflect a certain point of view that is associated with cavalry charges through the history of the literature and through the paintings,” he said. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Green Valleys, Golden Sunsets and 'War Horse' 2011-12-21T19:13:47Z

The show’s big center section turns to Cosimo’s involvement with literature and the revival of humanism. For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

What the narrator ends up celebrating is the power of literature’s comparative immateriality—how you can describe works that can’t be made or haven’t yet been made, for instance. This Week in Fiction: Ben Lerner on Art, Language, and Uber 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

After winnowing the selection down to more forceful recommendations, they randomly selected 80 and weighed them against the existing medical literature, evaluating each claim for “consistency and believability.” Scientists prove that you shouldn’t trust anything Dr. Oz says 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

“You like literature. And that does not seem to conflict with the fact that you like TV, or the fact that you watch films,” he reasons. Teju Cole on knowns, unknowns and 'Known and Strange Things' 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

One must recall that English literature stretches back over a thousand years, encompassing all of history since the middle ages. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Surely literature isn't – or isn't just – about contemplation, let alone meditation. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z

"We don't connect with literature in the intellect," Smiley has said. Fall books preview: A busy literary season ahead 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

In 1967, the term “Arabic literature,” for most Western readers, meant two books, the Quran and “The Arabian Nights.” Denys Johnson-Davies, Translator of Arab Writers, Is Dead at 94 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

According to a new study published in the April issue of “Gender and Society,” there has been a bias toward male characters — men, boys and, yes, animals — in the children’s literature of the last century. ArtsBeat: New Study Finds Gender Bias in Children's Books 2011-05-05T13:00:28Z

She also worked as a translator of Italian literature, including her husband’s short stories, which were published in English in The New Yorker. Helen Barolini, Chronicler of Italian American Women, Dies at 97 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

I came upon that Verne quote in a Georges Perec essay on how to arrange one’s bookshelves, a delightful piece about the impossibility of keeping literature contained. Missing the point of the reality of fiction 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Or has certainly been following the sensationalist literature on the subject. Doctor Who's acid test 2010-04-13T20:00:00Z

Like me, he’s a cultured hound with a busy mental life: he knows his literature, his art history, his philosophy. Books of The Times: Marilyn, Dostoyevsky and Me, Her Pup 2010-12-06T20:40:00Z

"We wanted to give literature in the Isle of Man the recognition it deserves." Manx literature festival begins 2012-09-27T11:42:32Z

Yet Vargas Llosa had a point when he told me the professor of literature had read the novel "without humour, as puritans read books". Llosa's life should not eclipse his work 2010-10-07T16:30:00Z

Ms. Muñoz Ryan took home the prize for young readers’ literature for “Echo,” the story of the role a harmonica plays in the difficult lives of three children. Yanagihara, Coates and Muñoz Ryan Win Kirkus Prizes 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Art and literature and music and movies are important. Casper Van Dien's career reflections, from "Starship Troopers" to his recent "creepy white dude" era 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

So as an undergraduate at a university in Nigeria, he instead pursued a degree in English and literature. History and Humor Inspire Victor Ehikhamenor’s Art 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

In college, she liberates herself on the dance floor and through the women protagonists of her literature syllabuses. From the Philippines to Harvard, Boyhood to Womanhood, a Coming-of-Age Across Borders 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Ness welcomed the darkness in the literature written for teenagers today, and rejected the idea of age-ranging children's books. Children's books need age certifications, claims GP Taylor 2012-07-09T13:16:00Z

The prize in young people’s literature went to Robin Benway for “Far From the Tree.” Masha Gessen, Jesmyn Ward, Robin Benway and Frank Bidart win National Book Awards 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

In addition to advice and questions about literature, Murakami may be seeding a mystery for readers. Haruki Murakami's advice on love and cats 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Myers believed that the invisibility of people of color in literature discouraged kids from reading. Walter Dean Myers was a pioneer of diversity in young adult books 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Of Jones’s approach, Martin says, “It was such an articulation of a cookbook as literature.” She brought us France with Julia Child, but Judith Jones’s culinary legacy also tells an American story 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

To have him gone is the closing the door, for the culture of science fiction and the literature of science fiction.” Ray Bradbury: The man who made sci-fi respectable 2012-06-06T20:30:00Z

Mrs. Werner, 30, is the director of membership at PEN America, an organization in Manhattan that works to advance literature, defend free expression and foster international literary fellowship. Rebecca Stump, Justin Werner II 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

What probably saved the book from the out-of-print netherworld was the 20th-century rise in children's literature scholarship, and general attentiveness to literature for children as a distinct genre. The Secret Garden's hidden depths 2011-08-05T11:42:29Z

American literature, like American history, is crowded with ministers and priests, pastors and prophets. A Lifetime at a Church, Filled With Faith and Drama 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

In their sophistication and intellectual challenge, his classes – whether on English literature or on general topics – were closer to university seminars than conventional sixth-form teaching. Peter Hardwick obituary 2013-02-28T11:49:32Z

What is my library of Russian literature, cinema, and philosophy doing here, in the midst of Theaster’s Black aesthetic space? Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

It typically takes the form of “writers depicting their minds, their consciousness, as they think about literature.” ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

He crafts dialogue with the florid, evocative quality endemic to writers who get their start on pulp literature, wielding similes like brass knuckles. Trolled across concrete: why Mel Gibson's new film is a curious provocation 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

He hasn't been interested in self-help literature or Alcoholics Anonymous. Perspective | Ask Amy: Miscarriage devastates expectant couple 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z

This might seem a tenuous example of "a dead body in literature", but with such an uncategorisable piece of work that only seems appropriate. Jon McGregor's top 10 dead bodies in literature 2011-01-19T09:17:13Z

She also touched upon a recurring topic throughout the night: the future of books and literature in the digital era. Ta-Nehisi Coates' meditation on race in America wins National Book Award for nonfiction 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Hemingway was awarded the Nobel prize for literature for work including The Sun Also Rises and Death in the Afternoon, both of which were lovingly devoted to the culture of Spanish bullfighting. Lost script reveals what Orson Welles really thought about Ernest Hemingway 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Shocked and dismayed, the mayor vowed to ban all such scurrilous literature from his fair city. Art Review: Illustrating Damsels in Distress and Emissaries From Our Deep, Dark Ids 2011-07-14T21:53:57Z

In Bloom’s scheme, literature is like a quarrelling family, and the critic becomes the Freudian analyst who can sort out the mutilated patterns of stress and resistance. Misreading Harold Bloom 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

One of the English-speaking world’s most beloved and best-selling authors of children’s literature, Geisel shepherded many of his books into film and TV adaptations. Seussapalooza! The Magical Creations of the Man Behind The Lorax 2012-03-02T16:12:29Z

But it was "Brave New World," published in 1931, that cemented Huxley's place in the pantheon of literature. Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

After the war, both he and his brother attended Bard College in upstate New York, where Robert studied literature and Richard studied music. Robert B. Sherman, Songwriter for Disney, Dies at 86 2012-03-07T02:44:10Z

He moved to New York from Washington, D.C., soon after, and sought out the city’s creative spasms: jazz, art, literature, newly emergent hip-hop. The Peerless Imagination of Greg Tate 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

And yet, at the same time, that essential ambiguity of literature is neither arbitrary nor unclear. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

Shin writes about longing and loneliness with the kind of controlled passion one finds in classic Russian literature. Kyung-sook Shin's 'I'll Be Right There' finds artful solace 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The world of “The Lord of the Rings” draws heavily on northern lore, language and literature. Review | The dauntless machismo of the Vikings 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Swap “chick lit” for “sensation stories” and Bhaer’s critique — this is silly, pandering, dangerous; this is not real literature — could have been cut from the 19th century and pasted into the 21st. ‘Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be’: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

The move comes as publishers and institutions struggle with how to handle Russian art and literature as the war in Ukraine rages on. ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author Pulls New Book Set in Russia 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

He had become surer and surer that literary theory, which he had once invited into the seminar room, was strangling the understanding and love of literature. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z

“He’s an avatar for the archetype of the 20th century antihero escapee from the annals of the 20th century canon of literature,” explained Ashley. Ashley Bickerton, Unflinchingly Honest About His Work and Illness 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

The project first appeared as an unpublicised 280-page European commission literature review last autumn, before being augmented for Friends of the Earth Europe with analysis of the links between nature-related health outcomes and deprivation. It's official: access to green spaces leaves you in the pink 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

He was educated at Jagabandhu high school, at Presidency College for a period, and then at Charuchandra College, where he completed his degree in Bengali literature. Nimai Chatterji obituary 2011-04-03T17:18:33Z

Programming this weekend includes an interactive theater performance based on Iranian literature and an art project centered on radial symmetry. Spare Times for Children for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

If the crimes of America’s origin are routinely whitewashed in public life, they remain central to its literature, in which the nation has been depicted not only as haunted but cursed, from Hawthorne on. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

I've never seen it work well in either literature or film. Rowling leaves door ajar to return to Potter "world" 2012-09-26T20:09:29Z

With spiders, I realised there was hardly any literature at all. Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z

In the offices of The New Yorker then, Alastair seemed like a world citizen, a Marco Polo of literature, returned with news of riches we had never imagined. Postscript: Alastair Reid (1926-2014) 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

It’s among the more memorable in recent American literature. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

And this, perhaps, suggests a reason why, even though modern literature and cinema could easily form a natural partnership, the marriage nowadays is so rarely successful. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z

Betancourt's book has already been called "a classic of Colombian history and literature" by Hector Abad, one of the country's most influential living writers. In harrowing book, freed hostage details horror 2010-09-22T21:40:00Z

For any cruise enthusiast who’s taken weeklong or similar sailings, going on a world cruise is like being a literature lover who’s only read short stories and discovers the joys of a novel. Cruising around the world in 115 days 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Rowling's series and seeing an "unfulfilled need for more children's literature that impacted kids the way Harry Potter did." 2010-02-13T22:45:00Z

Despite its presence in ancient and classical literature, travel had rarely if ever been central, certainly not personal travel. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z

So one of the things I’m really looking forward to is to dig into a whole bunch of literature. Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

In deciding to become a farmer—not an idle dweller but the owner of a productive, medium-sized fazenda—he had downgraded the status of literature. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

He devoured European literature and easily mastered a handful of languages. Books Of the Times: ?Leo & His Circle,? by Annie Cohen-Solal 2010-05-18T22:29:00Z

Have we strayed so far that we no longer recognize a true classic of American literature? Harpo Marx, South Carolina’s Voting History and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

As the mass-media landscape shifted and expanded throughout his life, Geisel eventually came to recognize the vital role of children’s literature. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

This is suited to a work of literature that asks readers to become armchair sleuths, extracting a core of shimmering truth from Benjy’s clouded thoughts. Review: ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ Elevator Repair Service’s Take on Faulkner 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“I think literature affirms our shared humanity. It allows us to experience life as seen by others in a way that no other medium can.” The book prizes are coming! The book festival is coming! 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Almost as soon as it appeared, Covid-19 seeded a peculiar and deep dread of the literature it might someday inspire. In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

I get asked about diversity in children’s literature a lot. ‘America loves the theory that all men are created equal, but doesn’t love the practice’ 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

Mrs. St. George enlarged another genre of children’s literature, the one that reveals to young people the lives that came before theirs, and that perhaps even their parents and grandparents do not know. Judith St. George, writer who gave children a sense of history, dies at 84 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

I wanted to be as engaging as the teacher, William Keating, and bring the beauty of literature to my adoring yet slightly troubled students. Heartbreak becomes burnout for teachers when work is turbulent 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

“I was exposing them to a kind of literature and theology that said that human life is pretty bleak,” Jones said. Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

In such circumstances, the opportunity that blogs continue to offer for long-form engagement with literature should not be denigrated, but celebrated. Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism 2012-09-26T15:37:00Z

“There’s no evidence in the literature that says consuming pineapple prior to an embryo transfer will improve implantation,” said Dr. Tomer Singer, a reproductive endocrinologist at Shady Grove Fertility. How the Pineapple Became the Icon of I.V.F. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Judged by the lofty standards of dramatic literature, Paul Oakley Stovall's "Immediate Family" isn't all that impressive. Amusing, sensitive 'Immediate Family' tackles sexual orientation, race 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Europe's been many things to Americans, over the shared span of their histories – a seat of both liberty and oppression, power and corruption, of art, literature, even language itself. Esi Edugyan's top 10 tales of Americans in Europe 2011-07-13T10:59:07Z

They are all artists who dream big, who compare the show’s themes to great literature and philosophy. ?Spider-Man? Starts to Emerge From Web of Secrecy 2010-11-23T23:22:00Z

“Sorry” is about as big and as small a family drama as there is in American literature these days. Theater Review: ‘Sorry,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Public Theater 2012-11-07T19:53:52Z

I would rephrase it as a statement: Literature is political because we, the creators of literature, are political animals; it is part of accepting our responsibility of being human, of being citizens of the world. Olive Senior: 'Literature is political because we are political animals' 2013-04-29T15:05:06Z

This year the festival — conceived after Sept. 11, 2001, to celebrate international literature — will include a special focus on the contemporary literary culture of Africa and its diaspora. PEN World Voices Festival Returns With Eye on Africa 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

State standards, such as those adopted by New York in 2017, no longer make the teaching of literature the primary focus of English class. Will high school "classics" be replaced? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

She studied English literature and creative writing before moving to New York City to attend Parsons School of Design’s fashion journalism program. Christina Najjar Speaks to Rich Moms 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

That’s what I think the celebration is: the dance literature that he’s brought into the world through his work is extraordinary.” Paul Taylor Alumni Return for 60th Anniversary Celebration 2014-03-21T21:23:57Z

Hemingway tears through the history of American literature and leaves only three survivors—Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Watson enrolled to study literature at Brown University in Rhode Island in 2009. Emma Watson breaks studies to focus on acting 2011-03-08T14:38:21Z

On Tuesday, Kirkus announced the finalists for its first prizes — 18 books in fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature. Kirkus book prize finalists vie for three new $50,000 awards

She has called her book, which helps fill out a rapidly growing body of published literature and documentaries about Epstein’s crimes, “my day in court.” She Survived a Tough Childhood. Then She Met Jeffrey Epstein. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

Bradford took part in amateur theatrics at school and studied English literature at Yale University. Bradford Dillman obituary 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Rejected by several publishers before George Plimpton agreed to release it, in 1967, through The Paris Review, the novel is now regarded as a classic work of erotic literature. James Salter, Author of A Sport and a Pastime, Dies at 90 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

The literature of American warfare tends to land in overlapping waves, like an invasion. Books of The Times: ‘The Corpse Exhibition,’ Stories About a War-Torn Life 2014-01-28T22:29:14Z

Still, we will almost certainly continue to be fascinated, perplexed and maddened by the “authorship” question, what Stuart Kells grandiosely calls, in the subtitle to “Shakespeare’s Library,” the “greatest mystery in literature.” Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

But I did think a bit about shared space, the intersection of the public and the private, which is always, to some extent, the subject of literature. Air travel, literature and its discontents 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

After he received the Nobel, there was resentment among some of his countrymen that Hungary’s first Nobel laureate for literature was Jewish. Imre Kertesz, Hungarian author who won Nobel Prize, dies at 86 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

When I teach my students 18th-century and Renaissance literature, they sometimes struggle to connect to it. University conference sinks its teeth into vampire fiction 2010-04-05T23:05:00Z

He still sees literature and film as liberating alternatives to stifling interpretations of religion. Is the Arab world ready for a reading revolution? 2010-04-16T10:19:00Z

“He never relinquished his vision of Manhattan as the mecca of American literature,” McInerney writes, “or of himself as an acolyte, even a priest, of the written word.” Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright, Precious Days’: Social satire or consumer porn? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

And the Nobel, in recognizing Dylan’s work as literature, acknowledges that artists create works of popular culture with just as much care, control, courage and genius as Ernest Hemingway did sitting down at a typewriter. Why Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to the book world 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

It has possibly the most morally complex plot twist I’ve ever encountered in literature. Elin Hilderbrand: By the Book 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

In no literature is the faith in technological progress more solid than in science fiction. Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z

The old folk tales of vampires, werewolves and zombies were reanimated in 19th-century literature. When horror stopped being supernatural 2013-05-16T09:55:38Z

The next year he won the Nobel Prize for literature. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z

Published in 1942, Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” remains a landmark of international literature, an example — despite its author’s denials — of the existential absurd. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

She helped change the study of American literature, opening its canon to neglected voices and traditions. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Writers have been blending fiction and nonfiction since the beginnings of literature. ‘ZeroZeroZero,’ by Roberto Saviano 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z