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Albert Camus and the Liberal Dilemma
Albert Camus is arguably one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His relatively short life is well chronicled and the fodder of multiple conversations in university literature classes.
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WHEN YOU STUDY Southern literature, it sometimes feels like all roads lead to William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, even if you had no intentions of going there.
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ShelfTalker Guest blogger Alison Morris chronicles her visit to Greece with other children's book lovers for a Children's Literature New England weeklong institute.
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Decade Later And Across An Ocean, A Novel Gets Its Due
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Failita, or, Lolita and the problem of the unreliable narrator
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Ramanujan works dropped from new DU syllabus
As part of its shift to the four-year format for undergraduate students, Delhi University has dropped the works of scholar A K Ramanujan whose "controversial" essay titled Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five examples and Three Thoughts on Translation was removed from the History syllabus last year for "hurting religious sentiments". Two works by ... (more)
Opinionator | Draft: Telling It Like It Is
Like many writers, I was interested from a very early age in the relationship between the way a story was told and what it was telling.
HiLobrow is proud to present the fifteenth installment of Robert Waldron's novel The School on the Fens .
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Lit Fest: Peering into our economic future
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Five Authors Selected as Candidates for Nobel Prize in Literature
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Book-A-Palooza To Benefit Common Language
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Faculty Senate explores the future of the doctoral degree
At its meeting on Thursday, the Faculty Senate heard a panel of faculty discuss the future of the PhD degree.
Stories all around us - Friday, 17 May 2013 11:00
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Albert Camus and the Liberal Dilemma
Albert Camus is arguably one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His relatively short life is well chronicled and the fodder of multiple conversations in university literature classes.