Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sandra Gilbert, pictured, co-wrote the landmark study with Susan Gubar: together they ‘stuck a wedge firmly into the frat house ...

As difficult as it might be to believe today, there wasn’t much support in academic circles for the study of American literature during the early 20th century. A consistent set of writers worthy of in ...

At a time when book reviews have largely vanished from publications around the country, Seven Days continues to publish them.

A very interesting piece by Prof. Thomas Balazs in Quillette. An excerpt: When ChatGPT can analyse Hamlet as well as any grad student, we might reasonably ask, "What is the point of writing papers on ...

Literary critic Woo Chan-je, 64 years old, a professor in the Korean Language and Literature Department at Sogang University, published his seventh collection of critiques, *The Wrinkles of the ...

When around 150 people gathered on Feb. 8 in Sever 113 — the kind of classic wood-paneled lecture hall in which one fantasizes about studying the great novels — for an English department debate on the ...

Harold Bloom ‘51, an English professor at Yale University and literary critic, died at the age of 89 on Oct. 14 in New Haven. He taught his last class at Yale University on Oct. 10. Born in East Bronx ...

A critic knows, wrote Dorothy Parker, when a book is not “to be tossed aside lightly” but “thrown with great force”. A critic should—as Graham Greene said of all writers—have “a splinter of ice in the ...

T here’s a conservative turn happening in literary studies, although it hasn’t received much public attention. Those involved certainly haven’t banded together under a banner. In literature ...

Veteran Hindi critic and prominent voice of the progressive movement Virendra Yadav passed away on Friday morning following a cardiac arrest at his residence in Indira Nagar, Lucknow. He was 76. A ...

We live in a culture of perpetual distraction. Last year, the average American checked their cellphone 205 times per day — at work, at home, in bed, while driving and everywhere else. Life is a ...

The 12th-century Shaiva mystic and vachanakara Allama Prabhu has been a massive presence in the Kannada, and more recently, in the Indian, cultural imagination. Apart from a couple of inscriptions ...