If King Arthur existed at all, we will probably never know the truth about what he was...
Literature
Literary being is beyond our control: maybe in this, and only in this, does it coincide with...
‘How should a person be?’ A novel was published in 2012 by a Canadian writer called Sheila...
The idea of progress in the West has a legible history – one bound from the outset...
The earliest written works in China are ghost stories and myths. By Emily MarkHistorian Introduction Chinese literature...
Examining ‘suspicious reading’ – allied reading – or reading in solidarity. By Stephen SquibbDoctoral Candidate in EnglishHarvard...
Even toward the end of her life, the writer revealed a youthful zest for life and art....
The brilliant, eclectic thinker who wrote the classic dystopian novel Brave New World.. At six feet four and...
Exploring how manuscripts reveal the evolution of the tale of Troy in ancient Greek and Latin traditions....
There is something of Walter Isaacson in the people he writes about. If the great values of...
The evolution of a reformer. Sometimes a book can change a life. In December 1859, a copy of...
Gilgamesh was a brutal tyrant who foolishly tried to defeat death. The Epic of Gilgamesh has been read in...
The work covers the entire history of ancient Persia from the creation of the world to the...
These poets would affect the literary arts of cultures around the world and continue to inspire readers...
The first evidence of Persian literature is usually dated to c.522 BCE with the creation of the...
When one is “brewminating” over the middle ages, anywhere between the collapse of the Roman empire to...
A film about the world of New York antiquarian book dealers. By Ella TaylorFilm and Book Critic...
The Bibliophile’s vision of the bookless future is in some ways prescient. This article, Octave Uzanne’s “The...
Locke’s method built on a long tradition of commonplace note taking, most famously John Milton’s from the...
In the manuscript culture of the pre-print age, a lost world of poetry has been rediscovered. When...
Using modern technology to understand a network of eighteenth-century thinkers. Introduction In 1734, Voltaire fled Paris to...
Reports reached London in 1720 and 1721 that the plague had already killed tens of thousands in...
The development of Korean literature is quite unique due to the creation of a complete new language...
Apocalyptic predictions are nothing new—they have been around for millennia. The First Warnings From Assyria An Assyrian...
In ancient texts, apocalyptic messages cultivated endurance and encouragement through dire circumstances. Introduction With streets deserted, hospitals...
How did Twain’s Huckleberry Finn engage and challenge popular ideas about slavery and race in nineteenth-century America?...
How did literature help make sense of the war and the profound changes it brought to the...
What is the context for Shakespeare’s Roman plays? Why did classical Rome capture the interest of people...
How did writers and audiences in late Victorian England and America explore the idea of a hidden...
Writing methods and tools are evolved from wood and clay to pen and paper, and then from...