We’ve waited seven years for Zadie Smith’s NW, the same number of years it took Joseph O’Neill to write Netherland and for Tom McCarthy to place Remainder with a mainstream publisher. It’s been four ...

For over forty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors ...

The late nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States saw the rise of literary realism and naturalism. These literary movements strove to represent reality in a way that made a rapidly ...

Terry Eagleton, one of the leading cultural critics and literary scholars of our times, comments on Irish society in one of his works, saying that literary realism never took root there and the ...

IN ART and literature, realism means depicting things as they are, but a fiction writer is not a historian or sociologist and, therefore, realism does not mean that a writer has to write the “detailed ...

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Defined by its lack of single-point perspective, trompe l'oeil painting presents an immanent view of reality. The paintings depend upon viewers to construct meaning, thus offering an illustration and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Humayun Ahmed, a prominent Bangladeshi author, playwright, and filmmaker, is renowned for his ability to seamlessly blend surrealism and realism in his literary works. His unique approach to ...

Two full novels, three short novels and two plays received the Second Lao She Literary Award, which was announced in Beijing on Tuesday. The ceremony to present the prizes, awarded every two years, ...