Literature is booming. Literary culture needs to catch up. By Henry Oliver Literary culture is dominated by pessimists. They claim that the English novel is in a slump, the media is dying at the hand ...

The tenth Wild Atlantic Words Literary Festival has been launched in Castlebar to a capacity audience. The opening session ...

Opinion: Sleeping 'too much' is often deemed a character fault, the result of laziness or apathy Sleep is an experience shared by everyone, and yet is so different for each person. This idiosyncrasy ...

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares one thing to another without using “like” or “as.” This guide explains the ...

New research considers the true value of Meanjin, using publicly available data. The journal has trained generations of ...

As a teacher I have never been fond of sublime questions. What is truth? What is literature? When I think of the latter question I content myself with the answer that a work of literature is a book I ...

As the Nobel Committee gets ready to admit a new writer into the pantheon, our critic asks: Is greatness overrated? Critic’s Notebook As the Nobel Committee gets ready to admit a new writer into the ...

The Royal Irish Academy recently marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Maria Edgeworth with a series of events in Dublin that included readings by Marina Carr, Claire Kilroy, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne ...

Professors Anjali Nerlekar and Ulka Anjaria discussed their editorial journey with host Jaya Bhattacharji Rose on TOI Bookmark in the context of their recent editorial work, The Oxford Handbook of ...