Prachi Jha, a rising author from Mumbai, India, has swiftly emerged as a compelling voice in contemporary literature. Her poetry collection, Moving Palates, has captivated both critics and readers ...

Around, let’s say, 1885 the young French poet Jules Laforgue was living in Berlin and scribbling observations in his notebooks. He was reading Charles Baudelaire’s notorious book of poetry, Les Fleurs ...

As Tamil literature prepares to enter a global conversation at the Living Tamil LitFest in New York, writer and thinker Jeyamohan reflects on language, tradition, translation, and what it means for a ...

Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, in a mountain valley some hundred and fifty miles west of the ...

Dubbed the father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun, one of the most prolific Chinese writers of the 20th century, will soon have his works made more available to Western readers with the ...

THE popular song of Greek folklore is timeless yet relatively modern: though its roots reach down many thousands of years, its production has continued almost to the present day. The natural ...