Homer’s The Odyssey still shapes modern storytelling, influencing films, novels, and television through its ideas of return, ...

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.

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

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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