Literature
Farmers’ Almanac to publish final edition after more than 200 years
November 10, 2025The latest from award-winning People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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‘Positive Obsession’ review: Riveting biography offers intimate look at Afrofuturist icon Octavia Butler
October 28, 2025New book explores the personal journals of the novelist, offering deeper look at her struggles for recognition, her working style, and her views on American political realities.
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Hu Yamin’s new book on Chinese Marxist literary criticism
January 13, 2025Hu argues that Western Marxists have deviated from Marx’s focus on class struggle and revolutionary change.
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Han Kang’s fight against violence, revisionism, and alienation
December 6, 2024On Dec. 10, Han Kang, a writer deeply attuned to Korea’s history of violence and resistance, will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the second Korean and the first Asian woman to earn this honor.
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‘The Bespoke Overcoat’: Gogol’s giggles, ghosts and class struggle
March 28, 2024A theatrical adaptation of “The Overcoat,” a short story written in 1842 by the Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol, who along with Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Gorky is one of the most renowned contributors to Russian literature.
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