Whether through novels such as “The Wizard of the Crow” and “Petals of Blood,” memoirs such as “Birth of a Dream Weaver” or ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by ...

You do not have to go too far back to find great (or just popular) movies based on books. We have seen many a cinematic ...

A semester that concluded with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ speech at Commencement also saw the launch of a major online resource for Greek literature that was largely developed at Boston ...

Judy Blume, one of the most well-known authors of children's literature and young adult novels, has had her work transformed ...

In December 2020, Associate Professor of Literature Brandon Som welcomed his first child into the world—a world marked by immense uncertainty as a devastating p ...

Filmmaker’s have always drawn inspiration from the classic literature. While some only take parts of it, some believe in taking the entire script and reinventing it with a modern twist.

My birth was a painful one for my mother (Navdurga, called Nani by most and Rukmani Vahu by her in-laws). At the time of birth, my head was rather long and my appearance rather strange (of course ...

His whole life was marked by this combination of supreme ego and self-effacement. Giving to modern literature its foremost commandment—overt authorial intrusions, especially the moralizing of a George ...

His novel Macunaíma, a cornerstone of Modernist literature, follows a shapeshifting ‘hero’, blending folklore, mythology and social critique to explore Brazilian identity. Katrina Dodson’s ...

Compared to, say, history or philosophy, English is a relatively modern discipline. There is widespread agreement that literary criticism in the form in which it came to dominate Anglophone ...

Hindsight is a fine, if useless, thing, but you wonder whether any eager reader welcomed the new year a century ago expecting that it would witness a literary gold rush. In fact, one of the ...