World Literature

‘Dream of the Red Chamber’: Why you should read a 2,500-page-long, 18th century Chinese novel

The sprawling novel is one of an immersive experience of Imperial China and one of literature’s most ambitious attempts at capturing the human experience.

Josh Stenberg, The Conversation
· Apr 24, 2018 · 05:30 pm
Photos and translations: The unique semi-pictographic dongba script of China’s Naxi people

This script can probably be dated to 13th century and is often touted as the world’s last living pictographic script, although that is not entirely accurate.

Duncan Poupard
· Jan 10, 2018 · 09:30 pm
New African literature is disrupting the standard lists of Western publishers (making readers happy)

African writing ends up volleyed between two default poles of ‘corporate global’ and ‘activist local’.

Jeanne-Marie Jackson, The Conversation
· Oct 12, 2017 · 05:30 pm

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