I have a vivid memory of one of my first meaningful failures as a high school English teacher. I was convinced I could recreate the same kind of inspirational experience I had experienced in the ...

J onathan Kramnick’s book Criticism and Truth is more modest than its title suggests. Essentially an apologia for the nuts-and-bolts work of literary studies, it is best described not as “ambitious” — ...

Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

Unlike film and stage, the act of literary production is an exercise in isolation. No matter how closely and devotedly a writer is concerned about his or her surroundings, he or she requires a certain ...

In a speech that was both a playful departure from the conventions of literary gatherings as well as a gentle interrogation of the conventional definition of literary canons, Samir Jain, Vice Chairman ...

Writing has literally changed the course of human history. The relationship between language and script is profoundly influenced by political, cultural, economic, social and historical forces, which ...

In the current (about to be old) basic education curriculum, literature is taught mainly as part of language courses, except for explicitly literature-oriented sessions on novels such as the Noli and ...

Here are the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature — text. The Governor General's Literary Awards are one of Canada's oldest and most prestigious ...