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The Awakening,  published by Kate Chopin when she was 49 years old, has become a literary classic, and an influential feminist novella.  Her...

The novella,   The Hour of the Star,   by Clarice Lispector, is unlike anything else I have read. This review can be thought of as follow...

The 1992 novel,  Jazz, by Toni Morrison, is original and engaging. In  Mrs Dalloway, published in 1925, Virginia Woolf accomplished a...

In trying to find out what makes a piece of fiction ‘literary’, Chris Gavaler and Dan Johnson of Washington and Lee University dove int...

One of the lovely aspects of fiction is to be able to enter other minds, and this occurs in an especially touching way when the character ...

Virginia Woolf said that Katherine Mansfield was the only person of whose writing she had ever felt jealous. Some of...

Do writers who feel themselves to be inspired enable their readers to feel the same way? This is the question that Todd Thrash and his co...

In Henrik Ibsen and the birth of modernism, Toril Moi proposes that Ibsen was the most important playwright since Shakespeare, and that...

Since the publication from our research group that the reading of fiction as compared with non-fiction is associated with better empathy ...

What distinguishes novels and short stories that are literary from those that are not? The issue has come into focus in the psychology of...

The week of Earth Day was intense in Minneapolis this year. Earth Day eve, already a time of pensive introspection given the reminder...

As I should perhaps have explained in  my prior essay struggling through the social justice implications of sugars and flavorings , ...

I recently participated in a fantastic workshop sponsored by the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (its acrony...

In recent posts, I have been thinking through some questions of internal dialogue. Noticing the process of narrating new places ...