literature
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Ms. Rundell, though she’s published her fair share of children’s books, hesitates to define children’s literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
From the earliest days of photography, artists have staged tableaux for the camera, often using painting and literature as inspiration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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
I admire that he got a PhD and became a professor, and now he’s a leading expert on literature from the Midwest.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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
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
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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