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 ...

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 ...

Realism was a keyword of the 2017 Chinese literary scene. Carrying on the emphasis of "realistic themes" raised in the 19th CPC National Congress, literary experts discussed literary realism in the ...

In Ezra Pound’s bitter poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” published in 1920, the poet lashed out at a culture that had disappointed his hopes for a 20th-century Renaissance. Pound saw himself as a martyr, ...

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 ...

When Colonel Aureliano Buendia faced the firing squad, time slipped away, and his life became a dream. Before him rose the mythical town of Macondo and its retinue of gypsies and their pipes and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A new film and a new novel under the same title, Cell phone (Shouji) have hit the box office and the book market at the same time. The special marketing seems to have won a lot more public attention ...