According to one academic journal, “No other American bookstore has done more to encourage experimentation in modern ...

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Here are five queer writers shaping modern literature. Their stories ... into the complexities of growing up queer and Vietnamese-American. His work doesn’t just tell a story — it transforms ...

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We publish work in both American and British literature from modernism to the present day and demonstrate expertise in research areas at the forefront of current thinking across a wide spectrum, ...

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Michael Thurston is the Helen Means Professor of English Language and Literature. Since his arrival at Smith in 2000, he has taught courses on 20th-century poetry in English, modernism, American ...