Readers can easily imagine this book appearing on a syllabus in their English or diversity studies classes several years from now; above all, “Less” is a piece of literature with a strikingly modern ...

Similar to American writers, Japanese writers and artists of the Modern period also broke from the authority and traditions of the past by attempting new styles, subjects, and themes ... on Asian and ...

This is Calasso’s theme—the mystery of ... art is a sketched picture of modern manners, as in the engravings of Constantin Guys, or in his own writing: all paintings of “the fleeting moment ...

The prominence of sexuality in Hebrew modernist fiction may be the most surprising of Pinsker’s themes to those who think of the new Hebrew literature primarily as an expression of national revival.

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There are those who would deny that modernism has any place in the realist tradition of Irish women’s contemporary writing. Paige Reynolds is having none of it, and argues persuasively that ...