literature
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I think in literature, I can understand sometimes what the point is in what they’re writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Set in the fictional Westish College in Wisconsin, “The Art of Fielding” is about the romance of baseball and literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
"And then I found in the literature that the same gene which is responsible for hairlessness in dogs is responsible for a reduced number of teeth, indicating that these were Peruvian hairless dogs."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Unwilling to limit themselves to literature, cats have successfully pawed their way into a wide range of artistic mediums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
And unless for some reason you had started a discussion with her about literature or mathematics, you would never have known the extent of her brain-power.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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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
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
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
I like to peg trans writing to other minority literatures that came before it.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 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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