"How does Tagore intoxicate a growing young man . . . .? How has Dhaka transitioned through the Partition of Bengal and the birth of the University of Dhaka? . . . . how does one remember-- with ...

Ideas, Thoughts and Memories: Bengali Literary Essays: A Selection in Translation is collection of Bangla literary essays starting from Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay (1827–1894) to the contemporary Anita ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All great writers have a life and an afterlife. The afterlife begins with the reassessment of the oeuvre and ...

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...

J.M. Coetzee’s literary tastes are decidedly Eurocentric and mid-century: His latest book of criticism includes appreciations of dead white guys like Bruno Schultz and Robert Walser. Those unfamiliar ...

Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, edited by Judith Kitchen and Dinah Lenney (Nov. 9, paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-393-35099-9), assembles 77 literary memoirs, essays, and ...

When it comes to an author’s legacy, who gets the last word? (Let’s forget for a moment the noble idea that the work speaks for itself.) Is it the author, the biographer, or the critic? Fall’s books ...

Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...