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In her fiction and in the classroom, Stanford English Professor Elizabeth Tallent is interested in how our relationships change who we are.

Tallent dissects many kinds of relationships in her new short story collection Mendocino Fire…

Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Orphan Master's Son, won the 2015 National Book Award for Fiction with Fortune Smiles: Stories.

The best writers bring places, real and imagined, to life. Think of John Steinbeck's vivid depictions of the dust bowl in the 1930s or Margaret Atwood's outlandish speculative other worlds. In her new book, Writing America: Literary…

This year, the English department is branching out to include a wider variety of English core classes and a new undergraduate minor in the digital humanities. The changes aim to enable students to focus on more specific topics in a more…

TOBIAS WOLFF, professor emeritus of English, has been awarded a National Medal of Arts for his contributions as an author and educator. President BARACK OBAMA presented Wolff and fellow honorees with the medals – the highest award given to…