The Yale historian argued that Charles Baudelaire’s "gray zone" of complicity and irony represents the most typical ...

The word ethereal comes from the ancient word for "heavens." It comes from the Greek word aitherios, which means "of the upper air." This stems from aithēr, the pure, bright substance that ancient ...

This Silence (2025) is a recently released collection of poems by renowned Naga poet Monalisa Changkija, one of the pioneers of Naga literature in English.

Ms Pelicot has become a feminist Joan of Arc, emerging from humble origins to battle not only her violators but also misheld ...

Throughout the collection, Changkija combines the intensity of confessional poetry with directness and lyricism. Her neo-confessional speaker quietly opens up to allow the reader to see her very bones ...

Lee Tonouchi, widely known as “Da Pidgin Guerrilla,” plans to promote Pidgin as a legitimate language for creative and ...

Discover what autarky means, its economic implications, and real-world examples like North Korea and Nazi Germany's self-sufficient policies.

Embrace the beauty of the "good enough." Tolstoy reminds us that chasing a flawless ideal only blinds us to the genuine joy found in life's natural imperfections.

Like the infernal French nobleman, Jefferey Epstein’s story represents cruel and oppressive politics that were seeded in aristocracy, tended in capitalism, and are now harvested in fascism.

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison struggled to unite the there and not-there in the same figure: Claudia had occupied the positive pole, as it were, and Pecola, the negative. Four novels later, in Beloved, ...

Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was removed from an English class at the public school. PEN America says it ...

At Pocket Gamer Connects London 2026, we highlighted the women and non-binary people shortlisted for the Aurora UK Awards - based on nominations received ...