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Poland has a strong tradition of long-form, literary journalism, known as “reportage.” Pioneered by Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007), it has grown into one of the most dynamic and popular literary genres in Poland. Translating the genre into English presents a number of challenges, including accommodating different literary and journalistic standards, different conceptions of genre and the […]

In 1967 a government inspector reported that conditions for Black patients in psychiatric hospitals in Alabama were the worst she’d ever seen, especially in terms of the physical spaces and in the lack of treatment options. Her report, and a subsequent court case, revealed the many ways that even psychiatric spaces in the American south […]

Well into the present, the idea that the work of art is – at least potentially – a whole has been one of the basic models for understanding literary composition. More recently this model has come in for heavy criticism from literary theorists who argue that the idea of wholeness is freighted with assumptions of […]