Tag: Literature
How the rich reacted to the bubonic plague has eerie similarities...
Kathryn McKinley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The coronavirus can infect anyone, but recent reporting has shown your socioeconomic status can play a big role,...
Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Austen’s ‘Emma’
Inger S. B. Brodey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The latest film adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic “Emma” is a visual feast of...
What ‘Walden’ can tell us about social distancing and focusing on...
Robert M. Thorson, University of Connecticut
Seeking to bend the coronavirus curve, governors and mayors have told millions of Americans to stay home. If you’re...
If the Romance Writers of America can implode over racism, no...
Christine Larson, University of Colorado Boulder
Over the past month, Romance Writers of America, one of the country’s largest writing associations, with over 9,000 members,...
We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned
Susanna Lee, Georgetown University
Are we all trapped in a live-action version of Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”?
The Jan. 3 assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was...
Like ‘Little Women,’ books by Zitkála-Šá and Taha Hussein are classics
Sheila Cordner, Boston University
I’m a scholar of literature who spends a lot of time thinking about why certain stories continue to be revisited, and...
As Herman Melville turns 200, his works have never been more...
Aaron Sachs, Cornell University
Outside of American literature courses, it doesn’t seem likely that many Americans are reading Herman Melville these days.
But with Melville turning...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
