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If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah…

Richard Powers brings together music, bioengineering and government surveillance in his new novel, Orfeo.

Powers has an interest in music himself, which stems from his childhood.  Also, as a trained physicist, Powers has brought…

Inspired by the myth of Orpheus, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present in Orfeo. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology…

Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts. Racial…

Professor Sianne Ngai will receive the MLA's 2012 James Russell Lowell Prize for her latest publication, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting at the annual convention held in Chicago on January 11, 2014.

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