American Novels | Great American Novel

As the second-largest country in the world, it is always odd to hear banter about the limitations of Canada. Some may point out its subservience…

Set in the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the first volume in The Transylvanian Trilogy is a moody, atmospheric masterpiece, replete…

Who says summer reading has to be fluff? There are so many recent titles and reprinted standouts tackling the black experience—in poetry, biography…

Horror books just can t seem to get respect. In 2015, the literary-genre barrier has never been more porous. Big name literary writers like Kazuo…

A survey of the 20th-century novel, its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry with film and radio, short story, and…

The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War…

+ Click on image to enlarge. Eliza s escape across the Ohio River, which is filled with great cakes of floating ice,is among the most dramatic…

The graphic novel, which Stanford students researched, wrote and illustrated, focuses on the life and times of a Chinese American man who dedicated…

Contemporary Classic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography – Andrew

I hate Catcher in the Rye: a novel about a privileged Upper East Side kid who doesn’t like exclusive prep schools and has a fun day at various…

Why They’re Here: Punk-pop rarely gets as crafty or ambitious as this Wisconsin trio, who spike their churning crunch with unexpected chord changes…

On a lovely day in May, 1868, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, sits down in the Louvre with an aesthetic headache, having…

Little affected my writing life quite like the discovery of an essay by Anne Carson, back in 1989, called “Kinds of Water, ” collected in The…

Value: 0.5 course units / 30 MA credits MA module code: GERMG028 Tutor: Reinier van Straten Teaching structure: Assessment for GERM4133: one…

Presentation Reading is good for you! It is no surprise to learn…