Narrated by Zafar Anjum, the author of "Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician" (Penguin Random house, 2014),...
history of literature
We are not sure of the exact date, but we know it happened on a Thursday in the fall of...
The stories of Javanese cultural hero, Prince Panji Inu Kertapati, dating from the 13th century, mark the development of a...
I often ask myself and others: why has so little Thai literature been translated? We are a country of around...
Translating a poem into another language—its content, its form, its tone, its nuance—is, as almost everyone who has done it...
Lu Xun (鲁迅) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (周树人), one of China’s most famous fiction authors, poets, and...
Bangladesh's English language literature over the years ... Ironically, it was the 1947 Partition and the carving out of East...
By the turn of the 20th century, “sketching from life” had become such a popular literary form that the editors...
The narrative around the pioneering Indian English poet and translator must rescue him from his image of a remote icon...
FLASHBACK A look at the history of modern Burmese literature from The Atlantic's February 1958 issue. It was only in...
