‘Ideas, Thoughts and Memories’: A rich anthology of literary essays by Bengal’s foremost writers The anthology, edited by Kalpana Bardhan, is also a reminder to take translation seriously.

Only fitting then that modernist writer Virginia Woolf was the toast of the 10th Symposium in the Literary Activism Series in New Delhi last week, centred on ‘the non-peer reviewed essay’, a ...

Book review ‘Courtesy of Criticism’: Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti’s essays exhibit his capacious vision The essays have been translated from the Kannada by Kamalakar Bhat.

We’re told in the translator Jo Catling’s introduction that Sebald didn’t view these essays as “literature as an academic discipline”, but that is exactly what they are.

If you read any literary essay about the American Catholic novel, you’ll see her Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock listed prominently—and she wasn’t even Catholic.

News Dumfries News Scotland's best literary essay award to be announced on Sunday in Dumfries and Galloway Wigtown Booktown reveal for this year’s Anne Brown Essay Prize trophy and £1,500 ...

Beginning in the 1980s, a number of key literary institutions transformed in ways that either expressly or implicitly promoted historical fiction as contemporary literature’s most prestigious ...

Whatever the case, what you’re looking for will be tucked safely away, curated into corners, never neighboring the “serious” literature. After all, it’s not literature, is it? It’s romance.

Literary World Grapples With Alice Munro’s Legacy After Daughter’s Revelation of Abuse 8 minute read Canadian Author Alice Munro attends a press conference at Trinity College, Dublin, in 2009.

In memoriam John Barth, towering literary figure and revered mentor, dies at 93 Barth, a Johns Hopkins graduate who later taught at his alma mater for more than two decades, was known for his ...

Amid criticism from staff members and others, a prestigious literary magazine has retracted an essay by an Israeli writer and translator wrestling with her attempts to find mutual understanding ...

A Jewish writer described her attempts after Oct. 7 to find empathy across the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Her essay triggered mass resignations and a retraction.