This week the Palestine Festival of Literature, known as Palfest, announced that over 1,000 writers have signed on to a literary boycott of Israel. In a public letter, these writers declared that ...

Han Kang, the South Korean winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, made her breakthrough in the English-speaking world with her first translated novel (her third in Korean), The Vegetarian.

And self-serious. Our literary criticism features a great deal of “I,” the pronoun most likely to overstay its welcome. In the right hands, this conflation of narrative and critique can have ...

Sherry Lansing, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Gene Simmons Among Signatories of Counter-Petition Opposing Boycott of Israeli Literary Institutions Their letter responded to an earlier petition from ...

A competing letter organized by a pro-Israel group has drawn more than 1,000 signatories, including the authors Cynthia Ozick and Howard Jacobson. Sally Rooney, Percival Everett, Jhumpa Lahiri ...

Bashar Taleb / AFP via Getty Images Over 1,000 authors and literary industry workers have signed a letter vowing to boycott any Israeli literary institutions that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in ...

[1] Plaque dedicated to the Théâtre Libre, its actor-director André Antoine, and its performers in Montmartre, Paris The work of the Theatre Libre was said to embrace both Realism and Naturalism. In ...

But behind the more superficial hallmarks of crumbling buildings, moody anti-heroes and complex heroines, Gothic literature has had a fascinating history and evolution. Though it originated in the 18 ...