You have your Southern Gothic tales and your Westerns, the San Francisco beats and the New York poets — but what is the literary tradition of the Midwest? It’s a hazy question: People don’t think of ...

The strangely short history of a publishing niche. Ad Policy The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, ...

Looking at the dust and cobwebs in the library stacks, one might be tempted to say that we live in a post-literary world. Yet, as Richard Utz recently pointed out in The Chronicle Review, there is ...

As the name implies, literary NFTs are digital assets that are coined on the blockchain as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. It’s a digital literary work that has been lately dominating the online world.

In the low-budget realm of humanities grantmaking, a University of Virginia press release this May came as a shock. The Danish National Research Foundation had awarded roughly $4.2 million to a ...

You probably know at least one geocacher, that person with the metal detector and the tiny journal who goes out with a GPS looking for tin cans and other repositories filled with tiny treasures. But ...

Dan Dixon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

There is a fine line between Calabash and a cult. After all, there exist legions who will not miss the biennial festival for anything in the world—those of us who, religiously and ritualistically, ...