John Matteson discusses Frederick Douglass’ proficiency in two genres: the oration and the autobiography, and why his works are so great.
Prisons have nearly always been spaces of constraint, especially for writers. That freedom, coercion, imagination, and resistance are viscerally evoked in texts concerned with incarceration ranging from the eleventh to the twenty-first century, and in Russian, Italian, Persian, and countless other languages, suggests that there is a coherent genre of prison writing extending across world literature, albeit largely pertaining to the modern period.
The ACRL Research, Planning and Review Committee, a component of the Research Coordinating Committee, develops a list of the top ten trends that are affecting academic libraries now and in the near future.
Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker has won the €100,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his first novel Boven is het stil, translated into English as The Twin.
Sharing thoughts on Arabic literature in English: does it lose something in the translation?
Native American former school-teacher and college professor, Debbie Reese, reports on the 37th annual conference of the Children’s Literature Association in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Travis Scholl explains why he is teaching the bible as literature, and its connection top Shakespeare ans Psalm 46.
A NEW series of literary bus tours have been announced by Academi, the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency for Wales, that will travel to disparate towns so people can learn more about Wales’ literary heritage.
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