How Joan Didion’s Sharp Eye for Society Made Her a Literary Icon
Discover how Joan Didion's keen insights into society and culture made her a literary icon, with a legacy that continues to ...
The perfect book for our golden age of indigestion
In “Rumbles,” historian Elsa Richardson offers a cultural account of the workings and symbolism of the “body’s most ...
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A scorched Earth: Juice, by Tim Winton, reviewed
Late last year in Australia’s The Monthly, Tim Winton wrote an essay on the urgent need for writers to look the climate ...
31 Haunting Halloween Books That Will Keep You Up at Night
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The chills in the 1959 Gothic horror ...
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‘Infinite intellectual curiosity’: Fredric Jameson remembered for transforming Duke’s literature program, pioneering ideas in literary criticism
Fredric Jameson, professor of romance studies, Knut Schmidt Nielsen distinguished professor of comparative literature and ...
How storytelling platform Pratilipi scripted a rare hit
Shelja Shrivastava, who writes in Hindi, is among the top authors on Pratilipi’s platform. A part-time professor and ...
My Favorite Spy Stories Are Set in Europe, so I Planned an Espionage-themed Trip Across the Continent
With this in mind, I planned a trip through Continental Europe, the setting of my favorite Cold War–era espionage films and novels. I would also take photographs along the way. Not tourist snaps so ...