In 1856, British explorer Richard Burton described Somalia as a nation of poets. It may seem an unlikely moniker for a country that has since become defined by piracy, state collapse, and the many ...

It’s time to move on to the next stage of assessing women’s literature. That’s Elaine Showalter’s message in her new book, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie ...

Every culture wants a literature of its own, a canon of works that reflects something deep and unique about an imagined community larger than the individual. In the 18th century, writers like Joseph ...

Last weekend, in the midst of a conversation about Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel, Beloved, I mentioned that there are Morrison references in every book I’ve written. This is true of a number of writers ...

Garth Greenwell spoke with me from Iowa City, where he’s bracing for the release of his already widely praised first novel, “What Belongs To You” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 208 pp., $23). Set in ...

Since the 16th century, the Spanish language has been interwoven into the fabric of American history, shaping its literary and cultural landscapes. Yet, much of this literary tradition remains ...

In their new book, "At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present," Princeton professors Maria DiBattista and Deborah Nord re-evaluate the past two centuries of ...

Egyptian author Nawal El Saadawi says her novel "God Dies by the Nile" has even more relevance today than when it was first published in 1974. In the book, daughters and wives in a poor Nile village ...

May 6—To acclaimed Irish author Colum McCann, storytelling can be "an act of radical empathy." His 2020 book Apeirogon focuses on a bond between an Israeli and Palestinian father and, similarly, ...

A man who helped cultivate a rich literary tradition and broadened the accessibility of the arts throughout the state, soon ...