You have your Southern Gothic tales and your Westerns, the San Francisco beats and the New York poets — but what is the literary tradition of the Midwest? It’s a hazy question: People don’t think of ...

It’s time to move on to the next stage of assessing women’s literature. That’s Elaine Showalter’s message in her new book, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie ...

In the mid-20 th century Odisha, an anti-establishment movement emerged as a response to the socio-political tensions before and during the 1975 Emergency. It was named the Anam (Odia for “Nameless”) ...

Every culture wants a literature of its own, a canon of works that reflects something deep and unique about an imagined community larger than the individual. In the 18th century, writers like Joseph ...

Every culture finds ways of spreading its fragrance beyond its immediate environs. The mobility of cultural resources has marked many aspects of our social existence as much in the past as in the ...

LAHORE: The Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture (Pilac) will publish 10 landmark books on Punjabi literary and cultural heritage within a week. Pilac Director Dr Muhammad Asim Chaudhry told ...

Actively supported by the Kerala government, the Kerala Literature Festival has come to be recognised as one of the state’s ...