Gregory Maguire extends his fictional expansion of L. Frank Baum’s Oz, traveling back to the childhood of the antiheroic ...

If Shulamith Firestone’s last work haunts the feminist movement, it may be because it suggests something disturbing about ...

Subtly but firmly echoing the plight of climate refugees, Flow is not just fiction, but a reality creeping closer to all of ...

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

Chancellor, esteemed members of the university community, distinguished guests, In his book Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-1796 ...

Coming to particulars, a significant theme is the mirage of 'perfection', for she is young and accomplished and the demands of that image by self and society can be highly challenging. The poet senses ...

and self-discovery in colonial Bengal Obayed Haq’s Bangla novel, Arkathi, is almost a bildungsroman tale filled with adventure and self-reflection. In true bildungsroman fashion, where the ...

In his latest addition to the famed Wicked Years series, Gregory Maguire revisits the magical world of Oz with a novel that ...

The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library reveals unseen aspects of their family life, and approach to writing. By Lauren Christensen ...

Sometimes, A24 makes way for the winsome Bildungsroman or the stern allegory; more typically, their films blend high finish with the tropes of popular modes, such as slasher, heist or road-trip ...