Behind the prestige of 'Heart of Darkness' lies a brutal colonial history. This deep dive explores what makes it both ...

For those above a certain age, Finlay J. Macdonald’s was the defining voice of Gaelic Scotland. That was true not just for ...

African Nobel Laureates have contributed immensely to the world of literature, providing deep insights into the human ...

When I picked up Baitullah Quaderee’s Bangladesher Shater Dashaker Kabita, it wasn’t particularly out of scholarly curiosity. The book is, by design, a doctoral thesis—its structure conventional, its ...

Peepal Tree founder Jeremy Poynting and associate fiction editor Jacob Ross look back on 40 years of publishing Caribbean and ...

In the past few years, writers have been liberated from traditional publishers with the advent of platforms like Substack, and there’s been a mushrooming of individual newsletters. But could it be ...

How Countries Go Broke builds up to a critical chapter on the unsustainable US fiscal trajectory. Given the fatalistic tone ...

Eve Adams, an immigrant and the proprietor of a 1920s lesbian tearoom, was imprisoned for disorderly conduct and obscenity, ...

He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point ...

The award-winning mystery novelist’s new book, “Ecstasy,” is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides’ play “The Bacchae.” ...

Greenwood Rising's Books for Thought series continues June 26 with poet and author Julian Thomas, who will lead a discussion centered on Black literature, identity, and his latest work.

Actor Chris Pine recommends five unforgettable books that explore trauma, power, purpose, and the weight of human history, ...