By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Thankfully, two recent anthologies of Indian fiction — both suggested to me by avid readers at the Book Fair — sparkled and may redress an imbalance noted by a literary friend recently: Jaipur, and ...

A Punahou English teacher and a veteran literary scholar didn't live to see the publication of their ambitious historical ...

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Written and directed by director Matthew Rankin, the comedy presents a Persian-language-inflected Canada, getting at timely ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

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By combining the wisdom of ancient texts with cutting-edge AI, India could unlock breakthroughs in philosophy, science, and ...

Alisher Navoi stands as an extraordinary literary figure whose legacy has profoundly shaped the art of poetry, elevating it ...