Thanks to the dedication of editors Adam Morris  and Bruno Carvalho , Essays on Hilda Hilst: Between Brazil and World Literature , the f...

A page from the George  North manuscript that starts the poem about Jack Cade. The last stanza lists terms for dogs, which Sha...

Adrienne Kennedy 's (1931-) published plays, all of them, unfold according to the logic of dreams. Striking imagery and language, ...

Tyehimba Jess CONGRATULATIONS  to poet and friend Tyehimba Jess , who was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his new collect...

From Isaac Julien's  Looking for Langston A month or so ago on Facebook, I casually mentioned that I'd taught an undergraduate ...

Who really cares about the Oscars? Clearly some of us care about the Oscars. Should we care about the Oscars? Should we care about the fa...

It's nearly January, which is another way of saying that the fall semester has raced past and is now over. In addition to marking my ...

UPDATE : Svetlana Aleksijevitj/Alexievich,  a Ukrainian native now long resident in Belarus , and author of several major works of nonfi...

Say you were born at the start of World War I, the second son and heir to a prominent Northeastern steel company fortune on your father...

UPDATE : Alice Munro  (1931-) was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "mastery of the contemporary short story."...

William Shakespeare As every writer knows, there is nothing like a great editor. Even for the most talented among us. Including William...