A vivid account of the creation of one of literary modernism’s greatest achievements ...

“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” So goes ...

Novelist Park Ji-won (1737-1805), better known by his literary name Yeonam, was an unusual intellectual who went against the tide in a profoundly conservative and inflexible Confucian social system ...

What did the CIA do in the arena of literature? What did literary modernism have to do with colonialism? And how and why have foundations actively collaborated with U.S. intelligence agencies? Juliana ...

I take it that our task here is to examine what, from a novelist’s perspective anyway, are the uses and abuses of literary modernism and its progeny, a hundred years on. The date is of course slightly ...

Ulysses, “The Waste Land”, Jacob’s Room: a year of radical experiments changed the course of literature. By John Mullan In the spring 1922 issue of the avant-garde American literary journal Little ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. As modernism becomes an increasingly acknowledged phenomenon in art and literature, ...

ALTHOUGH Tokyo is, naturally, the literary center of Japan, one of the Meccas of modern Japanese literature is a small town called Magome, in a mountain valley some hundred and fifty miles west of the ...