Tag: Novels
Thousands of AI‑written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold –...
Laura Beers, American University
At some point in the next several months, I am hoping to receive a modest...
What Amazon MGM’s creative control over the James Bond film franchise...
Colin Burnett, Washington University in St. Louis
James Bond was front and center at the 2025 Academy Awards –...
20 years after the publication of ‘Purple Hibiscus,’ a generation of...
Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
Twenty years ago, in October 2003, 26-year-old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto...
Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the enduring devastation of the opioid crisis
William Nash, Middlebury
Barbara Kingsolver’s literary honors range from the National Book Prize of South Africa to the PEN/Faulkner...
Why I teach a course connecting Taylor Swift’s songs to the...
Elizabeth Scala, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
Unusual Courses is...
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,...
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...
Did a censored female writer inspire Hemingway’s famous style?
Cynthia Wachtell, Yeshiva University
Virtually everyone has heard of Ernest Hemingway. But you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who knows of Ellen N. La Motte.
People...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
