A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025 ...

From Bengal to Maharashtra and from the Hindi heartland to the four southern states, editor AJ Thomas has curated a sampling menu of short stories from different regions, languages, time periods and ...

The connotations of the word “realism” in French literature are so varied that the magnitude of the subject is even greater than appears at first sight. In its later developments realistic ...

American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to ...

Harry Potter, while having elements of magical realism, presents a fully imagined magical world separate from our reality, a key characteristic of fantasy literature. In contrast, magical realism ...

I was born in Germany and grew up in Yorkshire. I joined the University of Sheffield in 2000 and was Head of Department in Germanic Studies from then until 2007. Previously, I had taught at Trinity ...

For the longest time, "Portrait of Prince William Nie Norte Dowuona," was thought to have been lost. Though Gustav Klimt portrayed the nobleman in 1897, the painting had not been seen since 1938. The ...

Individualists span all political parties, institutions, and social groups which means the philosophy of crowdism it creates ...

These are strange times. Capitalism, crippled by its own contradictions—there are thirty million people out of work in the oecd countries alone—is nonetheless triumphant. From New York to Beijing, via ...