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Worldcrunch » literature

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Ideasliterature

Rediscovering The Lost Art Of Curiosity In A Digital Age

by Raquel Garzón December 3, 2025December 3, 2025
Societyliterature

Darjeeling Unlimited: How Boyhood Years In India Shaped Tom Stoppard’s Vision

by Nikhil Kumar December 1, 2025December 1, 2025
A person lies on the beach reading a book
Societysocial media

Book Selfies And Late-Stage Capitalism: The Summer Of Performative Reading

by Gonzalo Núñez August 29, 2025August 29, 2025
Societyliterature

Why Dostoevsky May Be The Original Spark For Latin American Magic Realism

by Fernando Araújo Vélez August 26, 2025August 27, 2025
Rehearsal for the Macbeth opera at Salzburg Festival 2011.
Societyliterature

Kafka Paranoia? Delusional Don Quixote? A Psychiatrist Diagnoses Literature’s Greats

by Soline Roy July 4, 2025July 4, 2025
Geopoliticsisrael

The End Of An “Impossible” Friendship? Germany’s Quiet (And Slow) Turn On Israel

by Steffi Hentschke May 30, 2025May 30, 2025
Societydemocracy

Mario Vargas Llosa On Populism, Feminism, And Hoping To Die With A Pen In His Hand

by Miguel Wiñazki April 14, 2025April 14, 2025
Black-and-white portrait of Pablo Neruda, by Annemarie Heinrich, 1967
Societyliterature

A Poet’s Darkest Verse: Malva Marina, The Daughter Pablo Neruda Abandoned

by Matilde Sánchez March 10, 2025May 24, 2025
Detective Duo's First Case To Baroque Composer's Birth — On This Day In History March 4
This Happenedvladimir putin

Detective Duo’s First Case To Baroque Composer’s Birth — On This Day In History March 4

by Worldcrunch March 4, 2025May 24, 2025
A man choosing a book in a library.
Societyliterature

“Magic Realism” Mania And The Folly Of Categorizing Literature

by Juan David Torres Duarte and Alidad Vassigh December 3, 2024May 24, 2025
Teenagers leave Qalat Doubba Castle near the village of Shaqra South Lebanon
Israel-Palestine Wardisplaced people

Not Quite Death: My Diary Of Displacement From Southern Lebanon

by Traik Ismail October 20, 2024May 24, 2025
Caspar David Friedrich: The Monk by the Sea
Societyliterature

On The Solitude Of Artists, Between Pose And Political Act

by Volker Weidermann October 10, 2024May 24, 2025
Barcelona's "Biblioteca García Márquez" interior on a sunny day.
Societyliterature

Inside The Gabriel García Márquez Library, A New Barcelona Architectural Icon

by Lorena Obiol September 25, 2024May 24, 2025
Publishing War: When A Pro-Ukraine Author Refuses A Russian Translation
Russia-Ukraine Warukraine

Publishing War: When A Pro-Ukraine Author Refuses A Russian Translation

by Dawid Dróżdż September 9, 2024May 23, 2025
Detail of French painter Auguste Toulmouche's work "The Love Letter" (1883), showing a woman wearing a pink dress reading a letter
Societylove

Dear Love Letter, Where Have You Gone?

by Betina González June 21, 2024May 24, 2025
AI-generated image of Ukrainian soldiers fighting Orcs from Lord of the Rings.
Russia-Ukraine Warukraine

Rings, Orcs And Hope: Searching For Signs Of Tolkien In The Ukraine War

by Michal Kubala May 24, 2024May 23, 2025
​Person using a old typewrtier.
Ideasart

Can There Ever Be Writing Without The “I”?

by Juan David Torres Duarte and Alidad Vassigh May 14, 2024May 24, 2025
Photo of an advertising poster for a French edition of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", circa 1897
Societyliterature

Much Ado About Translation: Can The French Ever Capture The Genius Of William Shakespeare?

by Nour Alahiane April 30, 2024May 23, 2025
photo of people in a circle holding hands
Societyartificial intelligence

Why AI Won’t Kill The Beauty Or Benefits Of Learning A Foreign Language

by Anna Franchin April 27, 2024May 24, 2025
Linguistic Identity, The Boundary Of Belonging Told Through Books
Societyliterature

Linguistic Identity, The Boundary Of Belonging Told Through Books

by Vincenzo Latronico April 1, 2024May 22, 2025
Photo of the book cover of ​Gabo's newly-published En agosto nos vemos ("Until August")
Societyculture

García Márquez’s Final Novel And The Eternal Beauty Of The Unfinished

by William Ospina March 16, 2024May 23, 2025
The García Márquez Posthumous Novel Is Out — And His Heirs Should Feel Ashamed
Ideascolombia

The García Márquez Posthumous Novel Is Out — And His Heirs Should Feel Ashamed

by Alidad Vassigh March 6, 2024May 23, 2025
​Open books.
Societyculture

Censorship, Metamorphosis: Why We Keep Retranslating Our Literary Classics

by Worldcrunch March 2, 2024May 23, 2025
Taylor Swift and William Shakespear.
Societyliterature

Taylor Swift Or Shakespeare? A Legit Comparison For This Literature Professor

by Worldcrunch February 19, 2024May 23, 2025
Woman with tattoo holding multiple small books.
Societyculture

“Reading Time: 59 Minutes?” Digital Forces Push Publishers Toward Shorter Books

by Pablo Cerezal February 17, 2024May 23, 2025
The Brothers Grimm (daguerreotype 1847).
Societyliterature

Beyond Fairy Tales: How The Brothers Grimm Invented A Work Ethic For The Modern World

by Matthias Heine February 15, 2024May 24, 2025
image of a mosaic of marco polo
Societyliterature

Was Marco Polo Just Another War-Hungry Profiteer?

by Giordano Tedoldi February 2, 2024May 23, 2025
Sherlock Holmes monument in Meiringen
Food / Travelswitzerland

A Visit To Reichenbach Falls, Where Sherlock Holmes Went To Die

by Bernd Geisen January 3, 2024May 24, 2025
Palestinian kid next to a house riddled with bullet holes.
Israel-Palestine Wargaza

No Hero Stories To Tell, A Gaza Diary Of Ordinary Heartbreak

by Badia Fahs December 19, 2023June 19, 2025
​Street artist painting on paper
Societyimmigration

Chinese Bookstores Abroad: An Immigrant’s Link To Culture, Memory And Home

by Michelle Courtois December 15, 2023May 22, 2025
Winnetou, The Immortal: Germany's Complicated Love Affair With Native American Lore
Societyliterature

Winnetou, The Immortal: Germany’s Complicated Love Affair With Native American Lore

by Chloé Touchard November 24, 2023May 24, 2025
Abdul Wahid shows a manuscript from the 14th century at his house in Timbuktu, North of Mali.
Societyhistory

A Future For Timbuktu’s Ancient Books? Conservation And Digitization

by Hannah Steinkopf-Frank November 13, 2023May 23, 2025
An Unearthed García Márquez Essay Collection Reveals: "Gabo, The Chronicler"
Societycolombia

An Unearthed García Márquez Essay Collection Reveals: “Gabo, The Chronicler”

by Alidad Vassigh November 7, 2023May 23, 2025
A black and white still from the German film Nosferatu, showing the vampire aboard a ship.
Ideashistory

What If Globalization Creates Vampires?

by Valeria Berghinz November 4, 2023May 21, 2025
A picture shows Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges in Via Veneto, Rome, Italy. He is drinking from a coffee cup.
In The Newspolitics

Jorge Luis Borges, Resurfacing On The Edges Of Libertarianism

by Alidad Vassigh July 29, 2023May 19, 2025
Black-and-white photograph of Czech-born writer Milan Kundera in May 1968, in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Societyliterature

Identity And Dissolution, A Czech Farewell To Milan Kundera

by Michal Kubala July 19, 2023May 24, 2025
An image of an orange candle burning, with smoke on top of it.
Societyliterature

An Atheist’s Prayer For Holy Week

by Alidad Vassigh April 8, 2023May 21, 2025
From Arrabal To Me — Chance, Forgetting And The Engines Of Creativity
In The Newsliterature

From Arrabal To Me — Chance, Forgetting And The Engines Of Creativity

by Alidad Vassigh February 11, 2023May 21, 2025
Photo of a typewriter
In The Newsliterature

The Writing World Turns A New Leaf As Authors Enter The Age Of Authentication

by Worldcrunch February 10, 2023May 19, 2025
photo of a metal statue of Franz Kafka in Prague
Societyliterature

Kafka And Dostoevsky: Was ‘The Trial’ A Hidden Rewriting Of ‘Crime And Punishment’?

by Alidad Vassigh December 20, 2022May 23, 2025

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