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Herman Melville’s last novel, The Confidence-Man, was published on April Fool’s Day, 1857. Aboard a steamboat on the Mississippi, a series of plausible projectors invite their fellow passengers to...
New York: A Literary History is the result of a lifetime of reading books about the city and reading authors who made the city their home. From Stephen Crane, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Zora Neale...
Any history of twentieth century literature in English is unimaginable without Yeats and Joyce, both born in Dublin in the last years of the nineteenth century. They are international figures who came...
“Get there if you can and see the land you once were proud to own…” W. H. Auden’s Poems (1930) presents a catalogue of exhausted landscapes and fragile psyches. This line in particular repeats...
Recently, India passed a bill to amend its citizenship law. With this bill, religion becomes a major criterion for the approval of new citizens. While the bill makes it easier to get citizenship for persecuted...
Present-day political controversies are strikingly like those in Britain at the end of World War Two. I’ve constructed The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900-1950 to call attention to that...
On Dec. 20, 2019, US democratic presidential candidates met for the sixth and last Democratic presidential primary debate* of 2019. Public debates are important events in preparation for elections; they...
We need new thinking and new politics if the world is to get out of the mess we are currently in. A new book Global Green Politics provides a tour de force of the contribution of Green politics to building...
The beginning of a new year did not stop the bloodshed in war torn Syria. On January 1st, a rocket attack was launched by the Syrian government forces on a school-full of students and teachers- in Idlib,...
It has long been argued that the social contract between the state and its citizens is fractured in Pakistan, in fact some have even taken it further to say that citizenship is altogether missing and that...
In late 2019, Hong Kong erupted with unrest sparked by a deeply unpopular bill to allow the extradition of its citizens to mainland China. Since protests began in March, thousands of people have been arrested...
Weeping Time Author Anne C. Bailey weighs in on the debate over The 1619 Project.
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