literature

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A senior at Yale University, Tina studies English literature and writes poetry in the creative writing concentration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Between March and October 2023, Mikheil Z. went to the BnF 40 times to request access to manuscripts, mainly by Pushkin, claiming he was doing research on democracy in 19th-century Russian literature.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

I make it a point to introduce my students to the literature of their home state, which includes Joan Didion, a standby and giant of what we now call creative nonfiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

In 1951, after appearing in nearly a dozen films, Monroe enrolled in a literature course at the University of California, Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

And, indeed, he had either bought books in vast quantities or had had access to a remarkable library, for On the Magnet begins with the first systematic literature review.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton