“Gone is the age of satire,” the speaker says, but this very poem, worthy of Swift, demonstrates that satire is, if dangerous ...

American sociologist and journalism professor Musa al-Gharbi argues that many people’s “wokeness” tends to be symbolic and aesthetic rather than material.

Before he was a novelist Sebald was a straight scholar. What insight into his enigmatic literary oeuvre can we ascertain from these newly published essays?

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Canadian Literature Canadian literature is almost entirely a late-20th century phenomenon. Though the Victorian era (183 ...

and undauntedly rewrote the whole of English literary history in its image. No more militant, courageous and consistent project is to be found in the history of English criticism. Who is the major ...

‘Always historicise!’ With this resounding imperative, Fredric Jameson opens his third major work of Marxist literary theory, of which the precursors were Marxism and Form (1971) and The Prison-House ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Russia’s recent efforts to destabilise the Baltic states have increased enthusiasm for the EU in these ...

Not just my own and others’ defence of the latter concept on carefully reasoned, theoretical and empirical, grounds but a whole literature ... as if their history of Marxism had been at all neglectful ...

For example, “Watch out for exhaust fog at the intersections.” Maybe I’d change a word or two. Add random words. Phrases like my man. Or I’d say, Traffic is heeeeeeeaaaavy. When I got hired for the ...