“Bangla Shahitto -- Adhunikota O Antorjatikota”, one of the sessions on Bangla literature on the opening day of the Hay Festival, was led by prominent writer of contemporary Bengali literature Abhijit ...

Elias Canetti, the German-language writer, born to a Bulgarian Sephardic family, who won the Nobel Prize in 1981, tells in his memoirs of his daily meetings in a Viennese café during the 1920s with a ...

Modernism is the literary movement that introduced revolutionary changes in literature and was also reflected in the socio-political behaviours as well. Modernism was mainly reflected in the arts of ...

The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.

Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the role played by “Big Magazines” in the production, publication, circulation, and reception of American literature between 1880 and 1960. The study ...

“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” So goes ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Dick DiMarsico / Library of Congress; The New York Public Library. The freewheeling Anderson was the kind of ahead-of-her-time woman whose story is likely to be ...

What did the CIA do in the arena of literature? What did literary modernism have to do with colonialism? And how and why have foundations actively collaborated with U.S. intelligence agencies? Juliana ...