Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Elisa (Lisa) New is a professor of English at Harvard, with specialities ...

Hugh Kenner, the quintessential expert on 20th century English-language literature who was equally at ease excoriating encyclopedias or explaining how Ezra Pound and James Joyce founded modernist ...

Much f the influential literature produced during the modernist period, roughly 1900-1950, was considered radical in its time. This course will focus on the experimental, avant-garde impulse that ...

The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association publishes articles on literature, literary theory, pedagogy, and the state of the profession written by M/MLA members. One issue each year is ...

Sagawa Chika, born Kawasaki Ai in 1911, died of stomach cancer in 1936, before her twenty-fifth birthday. Even with such a brief career, she was one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde ...

J. D. McClatchy, the editor of this addition to The Library of America’s American Poets Project, reminds us that “over 620,000 soldiers died during those four years, nearly as many as in all of ...