Did you know that English used to be viewed as a language for everyday people? For a long time, scholars preferred to write ...

For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism. By Sophie Gee Sophie Gee teaches English ...

On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...

THE BLAZE OF NOON—Rayner Hep-pens-tall—Alliance ($2.50). Very quiet and seldom widely advertised are the deep changes of popular mood and imagination by which literature grows. A great war may hasten ...

Haruki Murakami’s fifth book, Norwegian Wood, was a sensation in Japan when it was first released in 1987. Despite its success, it wasn’t widely available in English until 2000. The gap between its ...

Two books by Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga are some of the latest novels to be translated into Shona. The two titles are part of the trilogy by Dangarembga which ...