In this piece, I want to specifically pose the question of how literature and literary writing can serve the purpose of representing the significance of the public service to the Nigerian public.

College education presents a fascinating paradox: while all students earn degrees from the same institution, their academic ...

Perumal Murugan, one of India's most celebrated Tamil authors, has masterfully chronicled rural life through novels, poetry, ...

Award-winning Mississippi author, Kiese Laymon, will be the featured speaker at the 2025 Literary Awards in Fowler Hall.

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Writing a novel is often compared to running a marathon—a long and arduous thing that requires stamina and perseverance. It’s a common analogy, but does it really capture the experience? The reality ...

Young himself has two essays in the collection, but the book’s broader theme is what ties everything together. For those familiar with Young’s writing, this blend of humor and introspection is ...

The literary appetite for motherhood narratives ... Chantal Braganza’s initial idea – to write a straightforward book of essays on “the culture of motherhood,” she says – would have ...

Only fitting then that modernist writer Virginia Woolf was the toast of the 10th Symposium in the Literary Activism Series in New Delhi last week, centred on ‘the non-peer reviewed essay’, a ...

In The Irish Times tomorrow, Bernadette Fallon looks back over 40 years of Galway’s Cúirt literary festival and ... on her hugely original and moving writing, which has captured so many hearts.

“These [essays], carried out as both criticism and ... That’s Viet Thanh Nguyen, writing in his latest collection, “To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.” The book originated ...