John McMurtrie introduces Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels Across The World of Literature with the famous Robert Frost quote: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the road less ...

“Literature” is a subject that can be hard to pin down. Broadly, it might include any structure of words, including a grocery list. Or, as the distinguished and prolific literary critic John ...

This introductory course focuses on the cultural syncretism and the global diversity of Jewish experience. It provides a comparative understanding of Jewish culture from antiquity to the present, ...

The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

“I think you must distinguish between a passage which says that homosexuals are sometimes happy and a passage which says: come and be a homosexual,” Frank Kermode argued at the 1967 obscenity trial in ...

Muneeza Shamsie is an eminent writer, critic and bibliographer, and a leading authority on Pakistani English literature. She has compiled and edited the present anthology of Pakistani Literature in ...

From The Bell Jar to Moneyball, from Gore Vidal to Tom Wolfe, countless books and authors have guest-starred on America's longest-running sitcom The Simpsons' lives continually mirror objects of ...