literature

I met with Mid-City residents Perez and Mohiuddin at La Monarca in Boyle Heights, where they were distributing literature to volunteer door-knockers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Mr. Jones, a professor of British literature at Trinity College Dublin, calls James “a curiously incomplete man” whose “troubled depths” were “concealed beneath an unflappably conservative surface.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ms. Gibson, a professor emeritus of literature at the University of Exeter in England, is a proponent of the study of local history, which she calls “the foundation of national and global history.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“Ultimately, literature is a thing of beauty, and in some ways, there are levels of ugliness it’s incapable of depicting.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Homer’s vigor and power of storytelling, the pretty fancies of Theocritus, the smart cynicism of Lucian, illustrate in their degree the course of Greek literature.

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

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

This time around I’m fascinated with the lineage of oral literatures.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 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