What Should We Do With Jack Kerouac?
“The Age of Oil”
Celebrating Black History Month 2025
Celebrate this year’s Black History Month in the US with us and browse some of our literary studies highlights below! Visit our website for a curated list of the best books and resources across subjects. Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joansby Steven Belletto Black Surrealist. Poet. Artist. Jazz trumpeter. Member of the Beat Generation.… Read More »
Finding British and Indian Women’s Encounters in the Colonial Archive
Welcome to our Research Spotlight series, where we invite postgraduate researchers and early career researchers to submit short-form articles that sheds light on their research to highlight fresh scholarship specifically on underrepresented research areas in an effort to stay abreast with new voices in the humanities. In this article, Tarini Bhamburkar illustrates how periodicals are… Read More »
Barbara Kingsolver’s World, Revised Edition
An excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver’s World, Revised Edition by Linda Wagner-Martin Demon Copperhead In recent interviews, Kingsolver has frequently introduced the theme that she loves her adopted territory of Appalachia (growing up in Kentucky put her near this region but not precisely in it). Once she married Stephen Hopp and eventually moved to his small … Read More »
The Evolution of Gerald Durrell
Guest post by Mary Sanders Pollock When I saw My Family and Other Animals on a bookstore shelf thirty years ago, I had to have it. I grew up on a farm, in a large, vociferous family, and the resonance with my own life was obvious. It also turned out to be one of the… Read More »
Inside the New Directions in Religion and Literature series
Guest post by Emma Mason It is nearly twenty-five years since Mark and I met at the inaugural conference of the British Association of Victorian Studies in 2000. Both of us had recently completed our PhDs and, working as we did on religion and literature, experienced literary studies as not always hospitable towards Christian scholarship.… Read More »
The Power of Prediction
Guest post by Kevin Mills This year will see elections being fought for political control of both the USA and the UK. Campaigns are in full swing in both countries, and the pollsters are busy making their numerological predictions. Even though such supposed foresight is rarely accurate, it is said that politicians use the results… Read More »
100 years after Kafka
Guest post by Michelle Woods, Associate Professor of English at The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA. When his friend, Robert Klopstock broke a tongue depressor checking Kafka’s throat, Kafka wrote “If I should go on living, you’ll break another ten on me.” Kafka died weeks later on June 3rd, 1924, in a… Read More »