The Pulitzer Peace Prize: Fighting Evil Through Literature

For about a century, American journalism has been construed as existing largely to expose the unfair exercise of power by the mighty against the weak.

By Tim Cassedy | Apr 12 12:00 am ET

Modernism Redux

I have a theory about contemporary literature.

By Tim Cassedy | Mar 22 12:00 am ET

Scripts for Sale: From Screen and Stage to the Page

It's always interesting to see which scripts and screenplays make it into widely available trade paperback editions.

By Tim Cassedy | Feb 23 12:00 am ET

Lit. Hum. in Real English

In the perpetual struggle to translate the "masterpieces of Western literature" into readable English, recent years have seen some notable advances and unfortunate missteps. Lit. Hum.

By Tim Cassedy | Feb 2 12:00 am ET

A New Kind of Postwar Suffering

The Great Fire

By Shirley Hazzard

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

278 pages

$24.00

By Tim Cassedy | Jan 26 12:00 am ET

75 Years of Reflection

It turns out that races condemned to one hundred years of solitude do indeed have a second opportunity on earth--if someone relevant gets an autobiography published, anyway.

Published last year

By Tim Cassedy | Nov 24 12:00 am ET

Comic Book Transforms Kafka's Metamorphosis

An adaptation of canonical literature to comic-book form presents a situation so weird that it ought to be received optimistically if only for its sheer discontinuity with the normal order of thing

By Tim Cassedy | Sep 8 12:00 am ET

LitHum Unplugged: Poet Pseudotranslates Iliad

Of course you aren't supposed to judge books this way, but an Iliad dust jacketed in blood-red with a black and white photograph of a haggard woman holding a pistol is just begging you to raise you

By Tim Cassedy | Apr 21 12:00 am ET

Hornby's Voice: Raspy with Age

Nick Hornby is 20 years past when you're expected to stop listening to pop music, but he hasn't given it up.

By Tim Cassedy | Mar 12 12:00 am ET