literature
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“We’re really attracted to literature that takes risks on the page,” Adam said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The results of Operation Blue Skies are expected to be published in academic literature and opened to wider scientific scrutiny.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
"Preserving Homer's legacy is a duty we owe to humanity. He is one of the founding fathers of literature," Bornova Mayor Omer Eski told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
AI can be especially good at finding patterns, such as links between physical features in medical imaging and words in medical literature or case reports, doctors and researchers said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
From time to time a few mortals were translated to Olympus, but once they had been brought to heaven they vanished from literature.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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
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
Many early pages chronicle the poet’s youthful Wanderjahre in Europe, but almost nothing is said about his 25 years as a Harvard professor of European languages and literatures.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020
Previously, she earned two master's degrees in world literatures and evidence-based social intervention at the University of Oxford.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2018
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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