Skip to content
the smart set

Tag: literature

§

05/26/2022

A New Scar in Time

Marcel Proust, art, and time

by Greg Gerke

§

05/16/2022

 Megan Walsh’s The Subplot

Reviewing the state of contemporary Chinese literature

by Jeremy Ray Jewell

§

05/09/2022

Theft from the Author

Literary pilfering through the ages, from Shakespeare to Cormac McCarthy

by Vincent Czyz

§

04/12/2022

When Reading in the Dark Turns on the Light

How inscriptions brought Ireland to Indiana

by Kristin Czarnecki

§

04/04/2022

Elena Ferrante and Feminine Creativity

An interview with Stiliana Milkova about Elena Ferrante, acts of translation, and leaky bodies

by Brianna Di Monda and Stiliana Milkova

§

12/06/2021

Tom McCarthy: Mr. Modular

"Plugging literature into other literature"

by Jared Marcel Pollen

§

10/28/2021

Poe Boy

The ongoing impact of Edgar Allan Poe

by Sudipto Sanyal

§

10/07/2021

Close Encounters With Tolstoy

War and Peace through a different lens

by Rhoda Feng

§

10/04/2021

Reading the Self

Reflections on Paul Auster's City of Glass

by Matthew Duffus

§

08/12/2021

Riffing the Prose

What Toni Morrison's Jazz did for jazz, and vice versa

by Colin Fleming

§

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts
  • Support the Smart Set
  • Submissions
  • Contributors
  • Contact Us

the smart set is an online magazine covering culture and ideas, arts and science, global and national affairs- everything from literature to shopping, medicine to sports, philosophy to food. The Smart Set strives to present big ideas on the small, the not-so small, and the everyday. >>

The Smart Set is published and supported by the Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University. Learn more about PHC >>

Subscribe

Get our latest stories in your inbox, weekly

follow us:

or try…

advice animals art book review books childhood comics cooking culture death family feminism film food friendship gender health history journalism language life literature love memory money movies music nature painting philadelphia philosophy photography poetry politics reading religion science sex technology television travel women writing
  • Conversations
  • Ideas
    Like a headache, with pictures.
  • Journeys
  • Archive