Queer writers have been at the forefront of reshaping literature for decades, transforming narratives and expanding the boundaries of storytelling. From early pioneers who broke barriers to today’s ...

Classic literature has long served as inspiration for artists in different fields, and the world of cinema is no exception. The intersection of classic elements and modern twists helps pay homage to ...

Immigrant Fictions is a groundbreaking collection that brings together studies of world literature, book history, narrative theory, and the contemporary novel to challenge methods of critical reading ...

Christians are comfortable with the classics. But reading contemporary literature can be a search for truth too. In his introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation, C. S. Lewis famously makes the ...

Prachi Jha, a rising author from Mumbai, India, has swiftly emerged as a compelling voice in contemporary literature. Her poetry collection, Moving Palates, has captivated both critics and readers ...

Dubbed the father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun, one of the most prolific Chinese writers of the 20th century, will soon have his works made more available to Western readers with the ...

In recent years, adaptation of acclaimed contemporary literary works to operas has become a prominent phenomenon in the creation of modern opera. This phenomenon is partly because outstanding literary ...

The era of modern literature in Korea began in 1894 when the government launched sweeping reforms which called for establishing public schools, writing in Hangul, the Korean alphabet, instead of ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, in a mountain valley some hundred and fifty miles west of the ...

We are no longer modern; we are contemporary. By the 1970s, the idea of the modern had become timeworn, and critics and philosophers diagnosed a turn to the postmodern. Now we seem to be in the midst ...