Tag: Literature
Literature has long been sounding the alarm about sexual violence in...
Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver
Recent revelations about Hollywood’s culture of sexual harassment and violence might come as a surprise to many Americans.
After all,...
How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of...
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
When he published “The Sun Also Rises” in 1926, Ernest Hemingway was well-known among the expatriate literati of Paris and...
The ‘inevitable sadness’ of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction
Cynthia F. Wong, University of Colorado Denver
On a damp October day in 2006, I followed Kazuo Ishiguro and my 10-year-old daughter Grace to a...
Ivanka Trump’s deeply political tome
Ani Kokobobo, University of Kansas
By and large, critics have taken Ivanka Trump at her word about her new book, “Women Who Work.”...
How World War I sparked the artistic movement that transformed black...
Aaron Douglas. "Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction." Oil on canvas, 1934. The New...
Making poetry their own: The evolution of poetry education
The American poet William Stafford was often asked by friends, readers, students and colleagues: When did you become a poet? The response...
‘The 120 Days of Sodom’ – counterculture classic or porn war...
Will McMorran, Queen Mary University of London
Over the past year, politicians on the right have railed against the supposed tyranny of political correctness.
Perhaps...
EXPLORING NATURE
Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the...
Peter A Noble, University of Washington and Alex Pozhitkov, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope
