literature

If a single power source could be said to have fueled the creative work of Alice Munro, the only Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in literature, it would be her ambivalence about her mother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

She’s also noticed that declining emphasis on the Western canon of literature has brought on a new, bookish tribalism.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Low Flight, inspired by the everyday challenges delivery riders face, has bagged the Lu Xun Literary Prize - named after a writer who has been referred to as the father of modern Chinese literature.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

This well-known section lists the Greek forces preparing for the Trojan War and is considered one of the best-known passages in Western literature.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

The stories are early literature as well as early science.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

Kuang, a best-selling fantasy writer and doctoral student in East Asian languages and literatures at Yale, said this while sitting in a sunny office at the headquarters of her publisher, HarperCollins.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2023

Chesterton, John Buchan, Rafael Sabatini and even Sax Rohmer, among a score of others, were — and are — thrilling storytellers, as well as the founders of our modern genre literatures.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023

He has a doctorate in Hispanic languages and literatures from UC Berkeley and a master of fine arts in poetry from UC Davis, where he is a professor in the department of Chicana/Chicano studies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

Rise and fall—this was the doctor’s business, and it was literatures too.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan