In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their forty-three fellow explorers headed west up the Missouri River, bound for the west coast. As they met a succession of different Native American ...

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Anyone who has taught a college literature course has likely heard a student say, “Can’t I just enjoy the book?” This frustration with literary theory is common. Many undergraduates feel that theory ...

Loranne Vella and Joe Gatt, the creators of the Maltese-language literary journal Aphroconfuso, outlined an ambitious project that seeks not only to publish literature but to fundamentally reshape how ...

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Ten years ago Rohan Narayana Murty hoped to do for Indian literature what the Loeb Classical Library—those lovely little hardbound books, green for Greek and red for Latin—has done for the Western ...

Hindi’s words tell the story of contact - from Persian courts, Mughal armies, Deccan bazaars, to multilingual urban life. But ...