Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...

The weathered details of the Villa Decius here, its splendid loggia overlooking the snowy Wolski Woods just 10 minutes from downtown Kraków, make it easy to throw the mind back to the 16th century.

Elias Canetti, the German-language writer, born to a Bulgarian Sephardic family, who won the Nobel Prize in 1981, tells in his memoirs of his daily meetings in a Viennese café during the 1920s with a ...

Margaret C. Anderson was at the center of a notorious literary-obscenity trial. Then she was forgotten.

There are various ways to distinguish the modernist writer from the traditionalist. Here is one. The modernist’s editor, whether the writer be novelist or poet, is unlikely to pose that polite ...

“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” So goes ...

In July of 1922, British artist and author Wyndham Lewis dropped in on Ezra Pound at his studio in Paris and found him boxing with a “splendidly built young man, stripped to the waist, and with a ...

THERE never has been a time when childhood has not been a theme for poet and painter. The plume of the warrior Hector nods in the face of the little Astyanax ; the fate-driven Œdipus gropes in the ...

IN an introductory lecture I gave last week at Harvard, I tried to clear the ground for laying the cornerstones of a National Anglo-American drama. I tried to justify the phrase ’ National ...