I was a latecomer when it came to loving contemporary literature. Even while earning a bachelor’s degree in “literary studies,” I never felt as if my perspective, as a twentysomething woman, belonged ...

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 ...

The story of a young Latinx or Chicanx can be easily distorted through the white-washed lens of mainstream television and film. Literature expresses these stories much more purely, but one must put ...

Christians are comfortable with the classics. But reading contemporary literature can be a search for truth too. In his introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation, C. S. Lewis famously makes the ...

An independent video, ‘Feel the Spark’ by Raleigh Rajan with vocals by Ciera Dumas that celebrates Tamil literary giants, garnered 1.4 million views in less than 36 hours.

In recent years, adaptation of acclaimed contemporary literary works to operas has become a prominent phenomenon in the creation of modern opera. This phenomenon is partly because outstanding literary ...

1. Literature is language-based and national; contemporary society is globalizing and polyglot. 2. Vernacular means of everyday communication – cellphones, social networks, streaming video – are ...