This month, Robert Alter publishes a new translation of three Biblical books in “The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary.” Alter, a Hebrew literature ...

Novelists like Ma Jian (especially his recent “China Dream”) are producing sly and savage works of international literature, exploring — and exploding — the implications of China’s ...

Out of the Sun looks at being Black and the concept of Blackness over the centuries, noting that society is worse off for not knowing the story of our past — stories that are left out of the ...

Like jazz, the Broadway musical and the foot-long hot dog, young adult literature is an American gift to the world, a groundbreaking genre that I’ve been following closely for more than 30 years.

Leads Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton may look like they walked out of a J.Crew ad, but they generate less heat than a rain-soaked newspaper. Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton in The Sun Is Also a ...

Hence literature is the perfect habitat for the enchanting-cum-infuriating seductress. First in this category is Pamela Flitton in Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time .

The International Booker Prize win for Heart Lamp, a collection of short stories that Banu Mushtaq wrote in Kannada and Deepa Bhasthi translated into English, seems to have unleashed in the ...

For more than 15 years, Literature Live had been a cherished tradition at La Quinta High School, but like many occasions, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted this milestone for some seniors.