Literature Articles

Times Online - By the time Terry Eagleton, a Marxist professor of literature – how quaint and old-fashioned that sounds – is laying into Martin Amis, the Mr Cool of British fiction, for remarks on Islam that supposedly make the son as racist as his father ...

Washington Post - Ruling out magic in children's literature would, of course, completely depopulate Narnia and Middle Earth, leaving just silent forest. The use of magic in fairy tales recurs for a reason; it reveals another reality -- what C.S. Lewis called the "deep ...

Washington Post - Book World invites young artists (ages 5-12) to submit their original, colorful works of art. The winning entry will be used as the cover of our forthcoming issue devoted to children's literature, and the winner will receive a bag full of books. All ...

Baltimore Sun - Yesterday, protesters carried dozens of signs reading, 'We don't want your pity, we want funding for our city,' while handing out literature calling for Gov. Martin O'Malley to reverse his proposal to curb funding increases for Maryland schools. As ...

Wall Street Journal - Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last week , makes a tempting target for biographers. As she tells her own story in "Under the Skin," published in 1994, she had a rough-and-tumble childhood on a farm in Southern Rhodesia with parents ...

Times Online - The study is one of the largest of its type because it involved so many deaths, but its conclusions are no different from an earlier analysis of the literature by Dr Coyne and two colleagues, Stephen Palmer, of the University of Pennsylvania, and ...

Times Online - The news emerged as Enright, a 45-year-old Dubliner, became the 2007 winner of one of literature’s most prestigious awards for her bleak Irish family saga, The Gathering. The latest British figures from Nielsen BookScan show that, since it was ...

NPR News - Kelly graduated from Harvard University in 1993 with a degree in Government and French history and literature. She completed her masters in European Studies two years later, at Cambridge University in England. She and her husband, Nick Boyle, have ...

Observer - The stage is waking up to the notion that it should take advantage of the great blossoming of children's literature in the last few decades - and by doing so lure in a new generation of theatre-goers. Hytner's own production of His Dark Materials ...

Guardian Unlimited - He has never published a novel, written a work of literary criticism or taught literature at a university. Yet there he was on Tuesday, at the Guildhall in London, complaining of cultural inflation and of an absence of robust, independent voices on ...