Languages, Literature, and Philosophy

Provide access to many literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and authors throughout history, including more than 132,000 full-text poems and 670,000+ poetry citations, short stories, speeches, and plays. Researchers can easily target the information they seek through refined search and results limiter options. Biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary are also included.

Gale Literature is an integrated research experience that combines Gale's premier literary databases. This unique digital environment allows researchers of all levels to find a starting point, search across a wide array of materials and points in time, and discover new ways to analyze information. Currently, users can cross-search these collections: Gale Literature Criticism, Gale Literature Resource Center, Gale Literature: LitFinder, Subcollections of Gale eBooks titles, Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale Literature: Something About the Author, Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors.

Contains the library's ebook holdings for Shakespearean Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Twentieth Century Criticism and Contemporary Literature Criticism

Includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.

Offers biographical information and literary criticism about world authors and their notable literary works.

It is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on rare or inaccessible materials. The range of genres and topics covered makes it a remarkable resource for teaching and research, providing an unparalleled view of women’s literate culture in the early modern period.

The African American Experience: The American Mosaic encompasses the myriad contributions of individuals from the African American community who achieved prominence in the arts, entertainment, the sciences, business, the military, and politics, as well as nameless others who endured slavery and institutionalized discrimination. Through primary sources and the lens of prominent scholars, this database gives voice to the African American experience from its African origins to the present day. Coverage ranges from detailed accounts of defining moments and movements to critical perspectives on timely and enduring topics such as stop-and-frisk, educational desegregation, and voting rights. Through daily content updates, this database keeps pace with the ongoing evolution of the African-American story via the most current literature in the field.

Contemporary Literature leads the way with in-depth interviews with significant writers, broad-ranging articles written by leaders in the field, and book reviews of important critical studies.

Another great site that has been going strong for over a decade, 3:AM publishes everything from original flash fiction to criticism and might be the best place on the net to read about modernist and postmodernist literature in the same place.

Ed Champion’s podcast has featured many luminaries, including John Updike, Martin Amis, Claire Messud, and National Book Award winners like Jesmyn Ward. Still, it has time for promising up-and-comers like Matt Bell. It is easily one of the best literary podcasts.

From Nobel laureates to debut novelists and international translations to investigative journalism, each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the world’s best writers to one aspect of how we live now. Granta does not have a political or literary manifesto. Still, it believes in the story's power and urgency and its supreme ability to describe, illuminate, and make real.

Literary Hub is an organizing principle in the service of literary culture, a single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life.

The Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization that promotes and disseminates rigorous, intelligent, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts.

Welcome to The Millions, an online magazine offering coverage on books, arts, and culture since 2003.

The New Yorker blog that offers reviews, articles and essays on literature and writing.

While the print version of this highly respected literary journal only comes out a few times a year, its blog has become a daily hub for readers thanks to a great mix of news roundups, essays, interviews, and more.

The best of the West, The Rumpus, has a slew of great writers editing and contributing to a site that churns out more than its fair share of daily content.

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