Since the 1970s, Judy Blume has won more than 90 awards for her ability to perfectly capture the inner turmoil of being a ...

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Ghada Abu Muaileq is a freelance writer and graduate of English literature from the Islamic University in Gaza. She writes about life under war in Gaza, documenting the experiences of a people who ...

In August, the University of Chicago announced it was pausing admissions to most of its arts and humanities Ph.D. programs.

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I hold an MA in Ethnomusicology / Cultural Anthropology from the University of Athens (NKUA), with an additional background both in western classical music and in Greek traditional/folk music and ...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian writer who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, has a unique connection to Calcutta through publisher Seagull Books. The Calcutta-based publishing house, founded ...

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This Thursday, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced in Stockholm, so it’s that time of year when readers, booksellers, translators, editors — and of course, writers — try to predict who ...