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Lauren M. E. Goodlad discusses what literary theory can teach us about large language models, why language is more than data, and what it means to put the “humanities in the loop” in debates about AI.

If Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" has you thinking about Homer's epic, dive deeper with a curated selection of free-to-read scholarship from "Classical Antiquity" that reveals new ways to understand one of literature's greatest adventures.

We talk with Carlos Alonso Nugent, recipient of the 2025 Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Biography Essay Prize.

As new film adaptations bring Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë back into the spotlight, explore scholarship that examines the unsettling power of these nineteenth-century novels.

A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino

For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.

Mark Anderson talks about his ecocritical analysis of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.

The overlooked influence of Carlyle's "Past and Present" on Charles Dickens' famous "A Christmas Carol."

Excerpts from "The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora"

The guest editor of UC Press's new journal answers the question, "Why have a journal special issue on Southeast Asian speculative fiction?"