A staff member mistakenly discarded two art pieces by French artist Alexandre Lavet at the LAM Museum, mistaking them for ...

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 – ...

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, ...

The hat-wearing photo of Bhagat Singh, born this week over a century ago, is how we remember him visually. Punjabi writer ...

Mangaka Ai Yazawa is best known for Nana, one of the top-selling manga in existence. After debuting in 1999, the story of ...

The cultural critic Fredric Jameson died on September 22, leaving behind a body of work of incomparable breadth and ...

The Nobel Prize-winning writer and the journalist chronicle their affair through shared photography. We revisit their story ...

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 ...

Her attitudinizing is the distaff version of David Muir’s equally treacherous blandness. Roland Barthes’s 1957 essay “The Face of Garbo,” taught in academic media-theory classes, defined an archetype ...

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 ...

It took Jean Genet and Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault to rediscover Sade in the twentieth century. It is in fact the dominance of puritan colonial role models that keeps us from producing good ...