The novel Women Seated is a thriller about a nanny for a rich family and a kidnapping gone awry. It's the first in a new ...

Education Literature vs. Ledgers: What Is College For? There's a larger conversation that the transmission of culture provides. Posted February 15, 2024 | Reviewed by Hara Estroff Marano ...

No one knows what ‘creative nonfiction’ is. That’s what makes it great. In ‘The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting,’ Lee Gutkind traces the fuzzy boundaries of a mysterious genre ...

John Guillory’s Professing Criticism offers a sobering look at the uncertain future of criticism inside and outside the academy.

The first installment of an essay series on literature and faith.

What is Moroccan literature, where and when does it happen, and in what languages? In this essay, we tackle these questions by tracing the evolution of the definition of “Moroccan literature” from the ...

John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk.

How is a lost tale of chivalry from medieval Europe like an unknown species of animal? According to a new study, the number of both items can be tallied using exactly the same mathematical model ...

But the literary man must love his art, as the painter must love painting, out of all proportion to its rewards ; or rather, the delight of the work must be its own reward.