Literary Studies

Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept th...

Writer and artist Shubigi Rao has been working on 'Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book', a ten-year long film, book, visual art, and exhau...

A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we thin...

Visit the historic places where great works of literature were written. Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. ...

Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere. In ex...

Edited by Bill Morgan A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series ...

In 26 conversations with 26 naysayers, this book is aimed at reflecting the spectrum of naysaying in Singapore's civil society. Each person is inte...

From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. This is the true story of lit...

With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what...