László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769” is a timely meditation on our impotent slide into authoritarianism.

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...

It has trickled down through history thirdhand, first appearing in a footnote to a study of Flaubert by the scholar René Descharmes, in 1909. Descharmes reported that, according to someone he knew who ...

In Western Marxism, Domenico Losurdo takes 20th-century European and American Marxists to task for unfairly dismissing ...

Theory Practice is a potent reminder that the purpose of art is not always distinct from the purpose of life: generating ...

Here we explore what the theory of general relativity is and how it affects space-time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Introductory examination of significant trends and movements in literary theory including such approaches as formalism and structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalytic approaches, theories of ...

In a lesson on “Literary Theory and Criticism” we obtained, students are provided with six lenses through which to examine books they’ve read: Marxist; gender studies & queer theory ...

Trump once again brought up Harris's father Donald, who taught Marxist economics at Stanford and who has almost no public relationship with his famous daughter, then tied it to his repeated ...

such as his Theory of Forms, which features in middle dialogues such as the Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic. In these long, literary dialogues, the character Socrates is less of the historical ...

This month sees the release of two biographies, one devoted to Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, and the other to Zeppo Marx of the Marx ... guides you through the literary news of the week.