The Irish Times

A novella approach to an undervalued literary form

Here is a proposition for you: choose any author you love, find out where they live, break into their house when they are away on holidays, and loot through the drawers of their writing desk. There, ...
The New Yorker

Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-Form

Ernest Hemingway was one of the great innovators in literary form. His apparent renunciation of stylistic flourishes—the absence of lyrical rhetoric, the spare sketching of context, the paring of ...
gulftoday

Poetry deepest literary form in Arab culture: Saudi writer

Sheikh Abdullah Bin Salem Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, and Sheikh Sultan Bin Ahmed Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Chairman of the Sharjah Media Council, attended ...
Scroll

Indian literature keeps waiting for the literary memoir as a form distinct from the autobiography

The contemporary memoir must surely be the most thankless of all literary genres. It remains an understudied category in scholarship, and is perceived as a lightweight or opportunist form among ...
Outlookindia

In Another Tongue: How Translation As A Literary Form Has Gained Ground In India

A work of translation is a world recreated in another tongue. Translators who transcreate a literary text invariably slip into the style and cultural consciousness of ano­ther writer. While working ...