The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of ...

THE tendency to consider centuries as natural periods in the history of culture, and their termini as milestones, indicates a mental habit that is far from logical, but it is one that men do not ...

Imagine that, like Robinson Crusoe, you are marooned for the rest of your days on a desert island. What one book would you most want to have with you? That is a question asked on one of the ...

“WHEN I write in Danish,” says Oehlenschläger, “ I write for only six hundred persons.” And so, in view of this somewhat exaggerated statement, he himself translated his best works into the more ...

John McMurtrie introduces Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels Across The World of Literature with the famous Robert Frost quote: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the road less ...

The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

Josh Clark and Judy Long get to the bottom of how a state historically limited in resources can have such scholarship and ...

The Book of Kells banner advertising the outside the library of Trinity College in Dublin Ireland The oldest university in Ireland founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I The treasures are on permanent ...