English literature’s last stand Stefan Collini’s new book explores why such a prestigious academic discipline finds itself on the margins of modern society.

‘Ideas, Thoughts and Memories’: A rich anthology of literary essays by Bengal’s foremost writers The anthology, edited by Kalpana Bardhan, is also a reminder to take translation seriously.

Trump’s cuts are a war on Jewish literature, thought and history itself The proposed elimination of the NEA and the NEH is already hitting the Jewish academic and literary community hard ...

Has any scholar written more readable literary criticism or history, or been more argumentative? (Of the several collections, the most convenient and authoritative are 1969’s Literary Essays, edited ...

The essays present the bleakness of the situation from different perspectives and with varied implications. Often, the historical narratives draw upon ethnographical snippets (Ghosh, lest we forget, ...

Book review ‘Courtesy of Criticism’: Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti’s essays exhibit his capacious vision The essays have been translated from the Kannada by Kamalakar Bhat.

It’s difficult to discuss the offerings of Literary Journeys without undertaking a chocolate-box sampler of my own, or, at least, without identifying holes I need to patch in my own reading.

A better bet for the general enthusiast would be the literary essays in Sebald’s collection Campo Santo, which contains writings from the late 1990s.

T here’s a conservative turn happening in literary studies, although it hasn’t received much public attention. Those involved certainly haven’t banded together under a banner. In literature ...

Revealing the secret histories of Joan Didion, Donna Tartt, and Eve Babitz.

If you read any literary essay about the American Catholic novel, you’ll see her Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock listed prominently—and she wasn’t even Catholic.