Drawing the Curtain examines the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes experiments with theatre and exploits theatricality in his diverse literary creations.

In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and cen

The expatriate, one of America's greatest black writers, giving a bold assessment of the world's outlook on race, a report of the Bandung Conference of 1955.

As Nurse Lugton dozes, the animals on the patterned curtain she is sewing come alive.

One of the most enduring and prolific American authors of the latter half of the twentieth century, John Updike has long been recognized by critics for his impo