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literature

[lit-er-uh-cher, -choor, li-truh-] / ˈlɪt ər ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, ˈlɪ trə- /


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Caicedo’s raw, colloquial style was ahead of its time, a herald of the rebellion against magical realism that would transform Latin American literature and shoot writers like Roberto Bolaño to fame two decades later.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

In this approach intended for piloting robots, artificial-intelligence models are trained on videogames and simulations, rather than literature, code and images.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

She added to the informant on an encrypted messaging app that she had "picked up some anarchist literature at the social justice center" which "could have some good tips."

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

An author winning the Nobel Prize in literature is about as big a bonanza of demand as you can imagine.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

It was Ann Dunham who’d introduced him to the richness of literature and the power of a well-reasoned argument.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Mr. Morson, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University, is the author of “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 15, 2025

Now, a lot of people who have emigrated to the U.S. are bringing their literatures into English.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2023

Germanic languages and literatures department, had stood outside the courthouse earlier this month with a sign that read, “Nazis: Losers in 1945. Losers in 2021.”

From Washington Post Nov. 22, 2021

He became a professor of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent in Canterbury, teaching the work of writers such as Soyinka, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Salman Rushdie.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2021

Every inch of visible surface of the board had been decorated, with four somewhat gorgeous-looking columns of quotations from a variety of the world’s literatures.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger




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