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John Garvey reviews "Red Rosa" for Insurgent Notes #12.

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The German poet’s dauntingly eclectic accomplishments were founded on a tireless interrogation of how a life should be lived.

Aparajith Ramnath is the winner of the 2025 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for Engineering a Nation: The Life and Career of M Visvesvaraya (Penguin Random House India). The award – comprising ...

The biography, an entirely original Hindi work rather than a translation or adaptation, draws on years of research, personal interactions, Tibetan sources, archival material and numerous first-hand ...

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“How I Became a Writer” (2025), edited by California-based writer Cecilia Manguerra Brainard and published by Vibal Foundation under its World Nonfictions imprint, is a readable anthology composed of ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Who reads literary biographies these days? The question is pertinent because the audience and the advances for literary biography have been shrinking since the 1980s. Of course certain subjects, like ...