topic: literature

The Jaipur Literature Festival boasts the privilege of being the largest free literary festival in the world. Founded in 2006, the festival...

We make snap judgments about others on a day-to-day basis whether we realize it or not. We do this partially because of our wiring for...

Albanian poet Migjeni's short prose piece heralding the new year in 1937, only one year before his untimely death at the young age of 27...

Editor's Introduction Najwa Ali’s poem, “If shore, then traffic” seems to apply itself to the reader just at that point where perception...

Editor's Introduction The 17th Century Kabbalist, Nathan of Gaza, speculated that before the world came into being, there were, in the...

Houses in small towns have strange nicknames. My parents' house, for instance, is known to the residents of the locality as White House –...

One of the unexpected benefits of preparing an anthology is the chance to read through enough mediocre literature to begin to ask yourself...

Preface Frankétienne (1936-) is considered one of the most important figures in twentieth and twenty-first century Haitian literature and...