There’s the Langston Hughes era where Black folks are telling America, ‘Hey, we’re here. We’re American.’ We have the Mama ...

Mining has driven Australia’s prosperity and way of life. It’s also environmentally and socially destructive. Our mining ...

Denis Johnson wrote about some of the most unlikable characters in American fiction, and yet he always managed to make readers care what happened to them. This talent may have had something to do with ...

Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.

PJ Harvey's new album, I Inside The Old Year Dying, builds off of a narrative poem she wrote about a year in the life of a 9-year-old girl in a... PJ Harvey's latest album unfolds out of an epic ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Illinois State chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. Although my high school creative writing class sparked my ...

Admittedly, I am the first to roll my eyes and scoff at literature of the ‘don’t worry, be happy’ genre. There is nothing more vexing than being told to calm down during moments of intense anxiety.

Imagine you’re walking down a bright street in Rome when the sun flicks behind a classical statue with anti-polizia slogans graffitied blackly on its base: the chafe of ancient and contemporary may be ...