The Nobel Prize-winning writer and the journalist chronicle their affair through shared photography. We revisit their story ...
This is because they do not sit comfortably between the paranoid creatures that Roland Barthes might, if he were still alive, have considered a mythology of the present day and the perfectly ...
Mangaka Ai Yazawa is best known for Nana, one of the top-selling manga in existence. After debuting in 1999, the story of ...
The consequences, for both our personal and collective lives, are much discussed: How can we safeguard our privacy against ...
A key area of study in cognitive literary theory is how literature stimulates imagination, encouraging readers to visualize scenes, events and characters. By engaging readers’ mental imagery, ...
In 2003 the Nobel laureate had a torrid romance with Marc Marie, a French acquaintance. In “The Use of Photography,” they ...
Last year, Wendy Cope’s poem, "The Orange", went viral on TikTok. I’m not totally certain how a poem goes viral, but it did – ...
The hat-wearing photo of Bhagat Singh, born this week over a century ago, is how we remember him visually. Punjabi writer ...
As a cultural Marxist, Jameson asserts that all cultural texts are inherently political and shaped by the socio-economic conditions of their time. His famous dictum “Always historicize” reflects his ...
Being a Marxist in America is an often bewildering fate, as the towering literary critic Fredric Jameson, who died last month ...