literature
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“At Iowa, I was drawn to those who were writing about worlds that were far away from literature and academia,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Thursday aims to thwart such plots and save literature for the next generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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
I think in literature, I can understand sometimes what the point is in what they’re writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
He expected the professors and students there to have opinions about politics, religion, and literature beyond what he'd experienced in Ohio.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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
Kuang, a best-selling fantasy writer and doctoral student in East Asian languages and literatures at Yale, said this while sitting in a sunny office at the headquarters of her publisher, HarperCollins.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
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
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
Rise and fall—this was the doctor’s business, and it was literatures too.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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