Margaret C. Anderson was at the center of a notorious literary-obscenity trial. Then she was forgotten.

“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” So goes ...

IN an introductory lecture I gave last week at Harvard, I tried to clear the ground for laying the cornerstones of a National Anglo-American drama. I tried to justify the phrase ’ National ...

“Bangla Shahitto -- Adhunikota O Antorjatikota”, one of the sessions on Bangla literature on the opening day of the Hay Festival, was led by prominent writer of contemporary Bengali literature Abhijit ...

PROF Shamim Hanafi, one of today’s most celebrated critics and researchers of Urdu, will turn 80 this November. Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu Hind’s quarterly journal Urdu adab has published in its latest ...

“Literature not only describes reality but also adds to it.” C.S. Lewis, in this quote, very nicely explains the impact that literature has on reality, as good literary works portray the thinking ...