(WIB) – Banned Books Week, recognized each September, was founded by library activist Judith Krug in 1982 as a protest to the increase in censorship of literature. Krug believed that bans on books ...

Banned Book Week highlights the surge in literature censorship. Learn about the impact on African-American stories and the ...

Native authors may finally be here to stay. Indigenous peoples have revered the power of stories since time immemorial, ...

Walter Whitman Jr. was an influential American poet, essayist, and journalist, best known for his groundbreaking work Leaves ...

"I taught Amy Tan for years, but decided I needed to do better," Hoffman said. "I needed to grow in my understanding of Asian ...

The ubiquity of English translations, coupled with the innumerable Latine writers who create works in English, means that you ...

Kenechi Uzor understood that African proverb long before he first saw a lion in the flesh, 7,200 miles from his Nigerian ...

Baker, William 2024. XVIIIBibliography, Textual Criticism, and Reference Works. The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 102, Issue. 1, p. 1227.

The essays in American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860 offer a new approach to the antebellum era, one that frames the age not merely as the precursor to the Civil War but as indispensable for ...

Author-playwright Jessica Hagedorn, “Yellowface” novelist R.F. Kuang and poet Monica Youn are among this year’s recipients of the 45th annual American Book Awards, which honor “outstanding ...