The Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez resembles nobody more in his work than Philip Roth. Mid-career Roth, especially. The two share a vast array of stylistic and thematic preoccupations, and no ...

There are two basic types of discursive essay. Firstly there are persuasive essays in which you can argue strongly either in favour of or against a given discussion. Alternatively, there are ...

Nigeria’s worsening security crisis has acquired a disturbing familiarity, unfolding like a script repeatedly rehearsed yet ...

The 21st-century world, and with it, our lives, are shaped by powerful discursive forces that are distinct from one another, but are nevertheless interrelated in complex ways. Sometimes they ...

One Born Every MinuteOne of many legacies left by the late cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, in Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices was to emphasise that to understand "the ...

Derek Gladwin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Canada First Research Excellence Fund in Canada. Kedrick James receives funding from the Social Sciences and ...

It was reported on May 25 that Zhang Weiwei (張維為), a professor of international relations at Shanghai’s Fudan University and director of its China Institute, in a speech at Wuhan University in China ...