To grasp Ngũgĩ’s rise from a village in Limuru to global literary eminence, one must retrace the educational and ideological ...

The letters, all written in a measured and neat Bengali script, carry a world of details that offers insights into the poet’s ...

Growing up in Kolkata in the 1970s, caste was not a big part of my life. You knew it existed of course, from the bride wanted ...

Another was Orwell’s Nose (2016), described by its literature professor author John Sutherland as a “pathological biography”.

As part of the Long Reads podcast on Jacobin Radio, we’ve produced a miniseries called Red Star Over Palestine: Histories of ...

All literary works are allegories of this fundamental narrative; and the point of criticism is to ‘rewrite’ them in terms of this ‘master plot’. This, indeed, is what the various chapters of his book ...

Student activism of an unruly orientation and the direct role of political parties in either promoting or nudging them has ...

A materialist analysis of ideological and aesthetic structures must also consider the contradictions generated between national formations and their respective cultures, sexuality, and the longues ...

EN250 - Introduction to Literary Theory An introduction to literary theory and criticism. Students will study selected poetry, plays and fiction through leading methods such as New Criticism, ...

Robert Kaplan’s latest book on big geopolitical questions reflects a shift away from high-minded ideals in US establishment thought. But instead of self-critical pragmatism, what he offers as a ...