The History of Literature

The History of Literature

Boel Westin on Tove Jansson

By History of Literature  May 2, 2024
The History of Literature

Gareth Russell on Hampton Court

By History of Literature  April 25, 2024
The History of Literature

Margot Livesey on Thomas Hardy’s Mistakes

By History of Literature  April 17, 2024
The History of Literature

Phil Jones on Why We Read Samuel Johnson

By History of Literature  April 11, 2024
The History of Literature

William Egginton on the Joys of Jodorowsky

By History of Literature  April 4, 2024
The History of Literature

Bob Blaisdell on Karl Ove Knausgaard

By History of Literature  March 27, 2024
The History of Literature

J. Edward Chamberlin on How Words Shape Our World

By History of Literature  March 20, 2024
The History of Literature

Gabriele Pedullà on Reconsidering Machiavelli

By History of Literature  March 14, 2024
The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson on Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By History of Literature  March 6, 2024
The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson on William Wordsworth

By History of Literature  February 14, 2024
The History of Literature

David Cooper on the Czech Manuscripts Hoax

By History of Literature  January 25, 2024
The History of Literature

Jonathan van Belle on What Work Meant to Thoreau

By History of Literature  January 10, 2024
The History of Literature

Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

By History of Literature  December 20, 2023
The History of Literature

Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

By History of Literature  December 13, 2023
The History of Literature

David Sterling Brown on Shakespeare’s White Others

By History of Literature  December 6, 2023
The History of Literature

Katherine Howe on the Joy of Writing Pirates

By History of Literature  December 1, 2023
The History of Literature

Dr. Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature

By History of Literature  November 22, 2023
The History of Literature

Robin Lane Fox on Why We Still Read Homer

By History of Literature  November 8, 2023
The History of Literature

America’s First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

By History of Literature  October 30, 2023
The History of Literature

Erin Sharkey on the Black Experience of Nature

By History of Literature  October 23, 2023
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