Literary Studies

Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, an...

Considered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanish Civil ...

In the course of compiling his highly acclaimed, three-volume life of Kafka, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: original wri...

A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major player...

In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar ...

ORACLES AND MIRACLES - three tales by Hideo Furukawa, translated by David Boyd THE MAGICIAN - a short story by Taki Monma, translated by Ted Goosse...

Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our ...

Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books fo...

Girl on the Train. Fifty Shades. The Goldfinch. Why do some books capture the whole world's attention? In The Bestseller Code, Archer and Jockers b...

In the nearly fifty essays collected in The Wild Children of William Blake, John Yau explores the careers of a wide range of poets and artists who ...