In Maithili Kavitak Hazar Varsh, Taranand Viyogi embarks on an ambitious exploration of Maithili poetry from the 8th to the ...

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...

Nnolim remains one of the finest as far as literary criticism is concerned. According to Prof Chijoke Uwasomba of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife who is familiar with Nnolim’s works, he left ...

More Literature & Criticism in the LRB Postcards from the Past: Georgi Gospodinov’s Impossible Books Chris Power, 5 June 2025 Georgi Gospodinov was 22 when Bulgarian communism collapsed in early 1990.

The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a ...

Mangaluru: A novel is not history, but it performs the function of narrating history, said Dr Gananath Yekkar, president of ...

The Stella Prize claims to fight for gender equality. The Stella website says it “takes an intersectional feminist approach ...

Not only are semicolons evidently becoming more rare, but young people are less aware of how to use them, according to a survey ...

Rereading the work of the pioneering feminist literary critic Cora Kaplan, who died in November, I had two equally powerful but perhaps contradictory impressions: on the one hand, the sustained ...

More authors have hit out at Goodreads following allegations that the reviews site does not effectively protect authors from ...

The efficacy and safety of currently approved and pipeline medications for moderate-to-severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) ...