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Articles with keyword "Literature"

Curio

Dante: Auctor, Autore

The question of authority among writers nags us less today than it did in the late Middle Ages, when poets and philosophers began daring to pen their works in the vernacular.

A participant of the Prime Time Family Reading Time program engages with a book.

Statement

Ten Years of Prime Time

Louisiana marks ten successful years of a literacy program.

Curio

Hey, Who You Callin' A Jacobin?

First of all, they are not even French. Second, they’re hardly household names.

Duane W. Roller, professor emeritus of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University

IQ

Impertinent Questions with Duane W. Roller

On the elusive Cleopatra.

Feature

Our Founding Novelist

Charles Brockden Brown mixed spontaneous combustion with Gothic horror.

Emily Dickinson

Feature

Emily Dickinson, Gardener

In her own time she was better known for her hydrangeas.

sepia photograph of Mark Twain standing behind Henry H. Rogers in Bermuda, 1908

Feature

Mark Twain's Latest Autobiography

One hundred years after his death on April 21, 1910, Mark Twain is having one of the busiest years of his afterlife.

Ken Egan, Executive Director of Humanities Montana

In Focus

Montana’s Ken Egan

Montana native Ken Egan promotes civic dialog across his state.

Mo Yan

Conversation

The Real Mo Yan

The renowned Chinese novelist talks with NEH Chairman Jim Leach.

Feature

Mo Yan 101

Sometime in the late 1960s or early seventies, a neighbor told Guan Moye about a writer he knew whose work was so popular that he could afford to eat jiaozi—“those tasty little pork dumplings