Eva Mroczek, assistant professor of religious studies at UC Davis, has been named the recipient of the 2017 DeLong prize for book history, for The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford ...

A conference-goer’s report. In February, a wide range of spiritual and literary types—writers, readers, editors, and thinkers largely consisting of Roman Catholics but not entirely—gathered at USC's ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Adam Kirsch, seeking to restore Trilling to his rightful place in the literary and intellectual world, tells us ...

More than 250 people will convene at the University of Dallas, on Sept. 30, to discuss the future of the Catholic literary imagination. This will be the fourth such biannual conference, since the poet ...

Odlin Redon, “Head of a Young Woman” (c. 1900-1916) (Photo: Harvard Art Museums, © President and Fellows of Harvard College) Symbolist artists — including ...

Toni Morrison, edited by Davíd Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell, and Mara Willard. Univ. of Virginia, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8139-4362-6 This eloquent, wide-ranging collection comprises Morrison’s 2012 ...

Most books in American bookstores have been written and published in English. The U.S. ranks in the top five for linguistic diversity worldwide, with its residents speaking between 350 and 430 ...

A decline in the English major is a crisis not of marketing but rather of public imagination, argues Jennifer Clifton. Several months ago, a report by the Association of Departments of English raised ...