The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...
What is literature? Literature commonly refers to creative writings in prose or verse that express ideas of permanent or universal interest and have superior and lasting artistic merit. The creation ...
John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk. By Jennifer Schuessler Thirty ...
NAUSEA (238 pp.)—Jean-Paul Sartre —New Directions ($3). WHAT Is LITERATURE? (306 pp.)—Jean-Paul Sartre — Philosophical Library ($4.75). To the U.S. public, the writing career of Existentialist ...
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