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Ten Intriguing Facts about Fearless Writer Sanora Babb
Oct 17 2024
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb," shares 10 intriguing facts about intrepid writer Sanora Babb — peerless author of midcentury American literature who was silenced by John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
Firesign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique
Oct 15 2024
Somewhere between the virtuosic parodies of Frank Zappa and the screwball wit of Monty Python, the Firesign Theatre reinvented the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s. Jeremy Braddock explores their legacy.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month through Poetry
Oct 08 2024
We honor Hispanic Heritage Month through poems by South American poets from the upcoming THE SERPENT AND THE FIRE, the final poetry anthology from Jerome Rothenberg and co-edited with Javier Taboada.
A Tribute to Jerome Rothenberg
May 01 2024
Jerome Rothenberg at UC Press in 2017, seated beside his collections: “Technicians of the Sacred” and “Symposium of the Whole.”Jerome Rothenberg, who passed away on April 21, was a giant in the poetry community and a longtime author, anthologist, and translator for University of California Press
Futures of Literary Criticism
Jan 04 2024
Christopher Newfield’s 2023 MLA Presidential address, "Criticism After This Crisis: Toward a National Strategy for Literary and Cultural Study," was published in Representations 164 (Fall 2023). As the 2024 MLA conference commences, we thought it an opportune time to revisit Newfield's 2023 address,
Q&A with Laura Jansen, Guest Editor of Classical Antiquity’s Special Issue “Anne Carson’s Euripides”
Jan 04 2024
Following her experimental translations of Euripides in Grief Lessons (2006), Anne Carson’s recent dialogue with Euripides is amongst her boldest. The Trojan Women (2021), a graphic ‘comics poem’, and H of H Playbook (2021), an ‘explosion of thought’ in the shape of a playbook with illustrations and
Q&A with C. Luke Soucy, Translator of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Dec 11 2023
Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In this boldly lyrical translation, C. Luke Soucy revives the magnum opus of Rome’s most clever and creative poet, faithfully matching the epic’s wit and style while confronting the sexuality, violence, and
A Look Inside Novel Palestine
Nov 01 2023
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah examines these imaginative structures so that we might move bey
Explore Literary Studies and Interdisciplinary Journals at #MLA24
Oct 23 2023
Explore Literary Studies and Interdisciplinary Journals at #MLA24
A Look Inside Sea Change, a Stunning New Atlas for Our Times
Apr 22 2023
"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit