We’ve waited seven years for Zadie Smith’s NW, the same number of years it took Joseph O’Neill to write Netherland and for Tom McCarthy to place Remainder with a mainstream publisher. It’s been four ...

For over forty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors ...

The late nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States saw the rise of literary realism and naturalism. These literary movements strove to represent reality in a way that made a rapidly ...

Terry Eagleton, one of the leading cultural critics and literary scholars of our times, comments on Irish society in one of his works, saying that literary realism never took root there and the ...

IN ART and literature, realism means depicting things as they are, but a fiction writer is not a historian or sociologist and, therefore, realism does not mean that a writer has to write the “detailed ...

Defined by its lack of single-point perspective, trompe l'oeil painting presents an immanent view of reality. The paintings depend upon viewers to construct meaning, thus offering an illustration and ...

The other day, Victor LaValle, a Queens-born author who employs the form of the fairy tale as a barbed hook to lure readers into serious treatments of race, parenting, and the internet, ordered dim ...

Not quite horror, not quite fantasy, but somewhere in between: the English countryside is endless fodder for modern gothic writers (Alamy) As I write this, the Beast from the East has its teeth in ...

Two full novels, three short novels and two plays received the Second Lao She Literary Award, which was announced in Beijing on Tuesday. The ceremony to present the prizes, awarded every two years, ...