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Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: Who really defined American literature?

The debate rages on nearly a century later. Two giants of the Jazz Age, two different approaches to storytelling, and one ...

Five young writers on the early American authors they most admire

The classic works from the early years of the country still provide the creative spark that inspires those who carry the ...
FIU News

Arg! FIU professor teaches American literature class on pirates

For College of Arts, Sciences & Education English Assistant Professor Mark Kelley, there’s nothing as exhilarating as being out on the water—the feeling of freedom, the vastness, the intrigue of the ...
National Catholic Register

American Literature and the Catholic Faith

It’s difficult to know where to start or finish in any discussion of the connection between American literature and the Catholic Faith. The whole topic is fraught with complexity, as is the ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

African American literature provides a crucial counter-narrative to our history

This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, in this reflective season, we find ourselves at a crossroads that would be ...
The Atlantic

Stedman's Library of American Literature

THIS work, 1 in the opening volumes of which we found such unusual interest, has increased in usefulness with each successive issue, and now in its total of eleven large volumes opens as complete a ...
The Atlantic

Three Centuries of American Literature

THE tendency to consider centuries as natural periods in the history of culture, and their termini as milestones, indicates a mental habit that is far from logical, but it is one that men do not ...
Daily Camera

Opinion: F. Willis Johnson: African American literature matters

This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, in this reflective season, we find ourselves at a crossroads that would be ...
The New York Times

Building a New Canon of Black Literature

Which older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered? By Adam Bradley Artwork by Dominic Chambers and Tajh Rust Adam Bradley, a T writer, is a ...
The Harvard Crimson

So You Want to Read Arab-American Literature

For many, Arab-American literature offers a personal window into the rich cultural heritage, traditions, and experiences of Arab-Americans not readily accessible in American popular culture. The scope ...
Publishers Weekly

European Book Fairs Want American Literature

American literature continues to command attention around the world, even if it seems to many abroad that Americans are not so interested in foreign works. Perhaps because of its position as the ...