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January 29, 2021
The AAP announced today that The Ferrante Letters is the Winner of the Literature category for the 2021 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers. The Ferrante...
January 25, 2021
Vanessa Chung ‘20 has just won the Leon Edel Prize for the James portion of her essay, “ ‘Unseen Place[s],’ Unlifted Corners: Portrait’s Narrative Gaps”, which will be...
January 14, 2021
Thomas Russell Whitaker, the Fredrick W. Hilles Professor of English & Theater Studies, Emeritus, scholar of modern poetry and drama, died at Middlesex Hospital in...
January 14, 2021
Henry James–in and out of–the Classroom, Daedalus, Winter 2021 Henry James did not write for the classroom. His personal experience of the institution was erratic...
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January 11, 2021
Cajetan Iheka’s book Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature has been awarded the 2020 First Book Award from...
January 11, 2021
Ved Mehta, a longtime writer for The New Yorker whose best-known work, spanning a dozen volumes, explored the vast, turbulent history of modern India through the intimate...
January 4, 2021
Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” is a revolutionary novel of profound scope and depth, about a day in the life of a woman who runs a few errands, sees an old suitor and gives...