What, Prithee, Is a Poetess?
The loss and recovery of a poetic genre shows how the canon of literary history treats women writers the moment they start to gain attention and approval.
The loss and recovery of a poetic genre shows how the canon of literary history treats women writers the moment they start to gain attention and approval.
The first African American of either gender to publish a book of poetry has remained a controversial figure in the black community.
Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering is self-aware about being the same old story, recalling the redemption narratives of Rousseau and St. Augustine.
Clare Boothe Luce was a socialite, an editor, a feminist playwright, a devout Roman Catholic, a Republican Congresswoman, an early LSD user, an ambassador, and, believe it or not, more.
Ten poems by the accomplished poet and teacher Lucie Brock-Broido.
Much has been written about South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, but his newly found photographs offer a news lens through which to consider his writing.
Poems by African-American poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Kwame Dawes, Rita Dove, Langston Hughes, Tyehimba Jess, Kevin Young, and more.
Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” is a cultural touchstone. But what about the women behind the “Women,” Alcott’s real-life sisters on whom she based her characters? An interview with novelist Elise Hooper considers the life of “The Other Alcott.”
Marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, rescued after four years on a remote island, is usually taken as the model of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, but is he really?
“Isn’t the ‘subjection of women’ in science fiction merely a symptom of a whole which is authoritarian, power-worshipping, and intensely parochial?”