In the classic South Park episode "It Hits the Fan," the show takes aim at TV censorship, highlighting the absurdity of ...

Jeyifo is generally regarded as the world’s pre-eminent scholarly authority on the works and career of Wole Soyinka. His ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

This Bob Dylan song bends time by shifting between past, present, and future, revealing why Tangled Up in Blue remains ...

the universe works without the aid of gods (or God), that religious fear (dreading hell) is damaging to human life, that pleasure and virtue are not opposites but intertwined, and that matter is ...

Mark Turcotte Named Illinois Poet Laureate Former Fish Creek resident Mark Turcotte was named Illinois Poet Laureate in April ...

Federal agents executed a search warrant at Temple’s home on Cork Oak Street on Nov. 20. Authorities found a shotgun with an ...

Perfection is a curious sort of novel. There is no dialogue and almost no conflict between the two central characters, Anna and Tom, digital nomads who spend their days in Berlin designing websites ...

An extra stage has been identified for the first time that helps explain why ice can have a liquid layer at the surface even ...

Shashi Tharoor and Bihar governor Arif Mohammad inaugurated the Nalanda Literature Festival 2025 in Rajgir. The festival aims to promote the discussion of literature and ideas outside conventional ...

Milwaukee book influencer Cree Myles to discuss "All Ways Black," her favorite reads of 2025 and literature's relationship to politics.

Before the Zionist movement began after the Six-Day War in 1967, Jews and state-sponsored antisemitism were in the shadows, their existence secret. This situation forced Jews to be more isolated and ...