Classroom discussions often favor personal and political takes over close reading and artistic engagement.

Pope Francis passed away at 89 on 21 April. In recent months, the Pontiff had been seriously ill. In February, he was ...

Poetry is resistance. Standing up to the cyber mayhem. Breathing art into the void. Today, we celebrate Poetry month.

Vargas Llosa’s unparalleled awareness of his craft made him perhaps the most accomplished writer among his contemporaries. His discipline to writing, and to doing so impeccably, was absolute. I ...

Do you know about the most famous punch in the history of world literature? It was thrown by the Peruvian Nobel laureate ...

This week, Gillian explores the theatrical, satirical world of Mauricio Kagel's ... both the magic realism of his teacher, the author Jorge Luis Borges, and his own rebellions against both ...

You may also know that Morris is the author of the recent massive ... a digression worthy of Jorge Luis Borges.) After the ashtray incident, Morris eventually did two stints as a private eye.

The death of Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist and politician and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa marks the end of a golden age of Latin American literature. With his demise the Latin American ...