‘If only there was a Pulitzer Prize for Twitter prose…’: A homage to Literary Twitter

If you followed Literary Twitter in its hey days, you'd know of Duchess Goldblatt and the 'kidney gate'. Cris writes about ...
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Graduate student explores gay literature’s contributions to social movements, canon

When Percy Shelley called poets “the unacknowledged legislators of the world” he was perhaps anticipating the future argument in poetics that pitted those who are interested in the form as primary a ...
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The role of literature in social movements in British India

Meet Anshu, an author delving into diverse realms. With a background in the UPSC CSE exam, Anshu combines expertise in labour, gender issues, Mithila culture, cuisine, environmental concerns, public ...
Los Angeles Times

How the Salvadoran diaspora became a literary juggernaut

There’s a movement afoot — if you know where to look. For too long, the American literary industry has discussed El Salvador and its people through the gaze of cultural outsiders. But that has started ...
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HISTORY: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PROGRESSIVE WRITERS’ MOVEMENT

One of the most significant literary movements to emerge from India — the All-India Progressive Writers’ Movement (AIPWM) — had its roots in the political revolution that formed the Union of Soviet ...