A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western texts. The emphasis in this anthology, therefore, is on non-Western and ...

By T Bone Burnett It’s called “Doggerel” for a reason: “These are poems that speak to everyone, that pun and riff and make fun of themselves a bit as they reveal something about the world.” ...

The Great Gatsby is more than cocktail parties and color symbolism.

He had been recommended the books for his children, and decided to read one first so as to tell them “why we don’t read trash like this.” Yet instead of proving themselves to be “trash ...