Doris Grumbach was an accomplished novelist, literary critic, biographer and memoirist and an early pioneer for her books ...
As a professor, I agree with my colleagues who have noticed the declining literacy of American students at elite universities ...
In 1960, novelist and literary critic Doris Grumbach reflected on the art—and science—of book reviewing, including Catholic ...
One is your romantic partner, the other is your best friend. Everett grew up in Manhattan, Kan., where the semi-autobiographical tale is set. (Like her character, the actress also grieved the death of ...
That is not altogether different from my view that Britain should never have entered the nuclear race: we should have remained a contented, but junior, partner in an alliance which depended on the ...
and who contributed to the shaping of American literature with novels and plays and poems that bequeathed us a voice to sing of ourselves. And, there are our Indigenous people who helped the ...
Han Kang, the South Korean winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, made her breakthrough in the English-speaking world with her first translated novel (her third in Korean), The Vegetarian.
I will only add that she invented American comedy as we now deploy it ... And self-serious. Our literary criticism features a great deal of “I,” the pronoun most likely to overstay its ...
Sally Rooney, Percival Everett, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Lethem and other giants of the literary world are among ... books translated into Hebrew, while “American Fiction,” the movie based ...
this romantic thriller is set in the late 19th century. The plot follows Luis Vargas, a wealthy Cuban coffee exporter, who marries a beautiful American woman named Julia Russell through a mail ...
Jackie Pillosoph is a hopeless romantic. “I love love,” she says. “I can’t get enough rom-coms or romance novels. I’ve been this way since I started dating at 16.” She’s so infatuated with love, in ...