For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism. By Sophie Gee Sophie Gee teaches English ...

It’s a universally familiar phrase. Ask any English-speaking adult or child, and they will recognize the label “goody two-shoes” as derogatory shorthand for an insufferable prude—but few remember how ...

But what strikes an English reader of the novels which come to him from America — many of them brimming with intelligence — is that those which follow the Joyce or the Lawrence method add to it a sort ...

To nominate the 20 greatest novels of all time, even if you’ve spent decades reading and writing about fiction, is far from an easy task. I swapped books in and out of the running for weeks; I was ...

A Keene State College English professor’s novel, The East Indian, first published in May of 2023, continues to earn critical acclaim. Dr. Brinda Charry is the recipient of the 18th biannual 2025 ...

IT is fashionable nowadays for young critics in New York and London to take pot shots at each other over the water. The American critic says the Briton is patronizing to American letters — and rat-tat ...