Cultural critic Jessa Crispin has long been an astute appreciator of the intersection of popular culture and contemporary ...

On Writers and Writing” gathers 21 pieces by the great author, including a confident critique of Dickens when James was just 22 ...

According to the nineteenth-century British literary critic Mathew Arnold, the purpose of studying and teaching literature is "to know the best that is known and thought in the world, and by in ...

Andrea Long Chu on her new book, Authority; the so-called crisis of criticism; and how she chooses her subjects.

Literary praise Notwithstanding the value of literary criticism, there’s still a lot to be desired with literary praise.

The stage is set and as it stands, one out of the overwhelming 252 entries received for the 2025 Nigeria Prize For Literature will, expectedly, emerge victorious come October this year.

Courtesy of Criticism: Selected Essays of Kirtinath Kurtkoti, edited and translated from the Kannada by Kamalakar Bhat, Penguin India/Ashoka Centre for Translation.

Literature is commonly defined as a “reflection of life”, which best suits the above topic. In above aphorism the word reflection” covers all aspects of life ranging from thoughts ...

Share and discuss “‘Infinite intellectual curiosity’: Fredric Jameson remembered for transforming Duke’s literature program, pioneering ideas in literary criticism” on social media.

Does literature merely reflect the world or actually shape the future? British writer Peter Boxall from Cambridge University answered this question during his lecture, “The Possibility of ...