“What good is a writer if he can’t destroy literature?” The question comes from Julio Cortázar’s landmark 1963 novel Hopscotch, the dense, elusive, streetwise masterpiece that doubles as a High ...

Julio Cortázar, trans. from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. New Directions, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2534-2 Between October and November 1980, the late Argentine novelist Cortázar taught eight ...

Northwestern Slavic Department Professor Emeritus Irwin Weil is now available for mass consumption. A set of Weil’s recorded lectures, called “Classics of Russian Literature,” will be on sale starting ...

In his 1952 short story “Axolotl,” a reader may find the central fulcrum on which the worlds of Julio Cortázar turn. Here, in this brief story (a mere seven pages in its English translation), Cortázar ...

“What makes good children’s literature?” This is an evolving question that was first posed at the beginning of last fall semester in Eun Chong Yang’s ENG 262 “Children’s Literature” course. Yang, ...

The literature survey course is taught at most colleges and universities. Its content and pedagogy are debated frequently at disciplinary meetings and in faculty lounges. A new collection of essays ...

If college professors spent less time lecturing, would their students do better? A three-year study examining student performance in a “flipped classroom” — a class in which students watch short ...