Annie Ernaux’s fiction reflects class, memory and desire with unsettling clarity, holding up a mirror many readers did not ...

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

At 250, Jane Austen still sees through pride, insecurity and desire with rare clarity, revealing why her novels feel truer to ...

A recent study reveals that decorative flower motifs on 8,000-year-old pottery from the Halafian culture demonstrate ...

Writers, activists, and scholars reflect on the most urgent books of 2025—from Palestine and caste to climate, queerness, and resistance. Read their picks.

The essay form is a response to minds, art, communities and culture, understood through a writer’s body, intellect and being.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges will offer a new global studies minor starting this spring. The program aims to help students build cultural awareness, language skills, and the ability to ...

To celebrate LGBTQ+ history, Stacker created a list of LGBTQ+ books that changed the literary landscape of their time, ...

The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen was first published in 1847. In some ways, it is Andersen’s darkest tale. The character ...

While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

The Publication of Kunjana Parashar’s They Gather Around Me, the Animals (in June 2025), is nothing less than a cultural ...

Wake Up Dead Man suggests that institutions can fail without belief itself being fraudulent — and that forgiveness remains a ...