USC scholars suggest captivating reads that offer fresh ways to navigate personal — and global — challenges.
Literature
Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection New Hampshire celebrates its centenary this year, and scholars say we may be remembering the poet all wrong.
The haunting genre provides more than just thrills; it’s also a way for us to explore our perception of reality, says a USC Dornsife English professor.
Among the winners were widely known historians and journalists, including biography winner Beverly Gage, for G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, and Dahlia Lithwick, whose Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America, won the current interest prize.
USC Dornsife’s Amy Cannon considers the groundbreaking poet, who explores “what it looks like to have America in the room.”
The works of the acclaimed 19th-century writer — considered one of the greatest novelists ever — have become staples in TV and movies. What explains their continuing appeal?
The relationship between modernist authors Hilda Doolittle (known as “H.D.”) and Annie Winifred Ellerman (pen name “Bryher”) spanned two world wars, four decades and even a few marriages (to other people).
It’s vital to human life and one of our deadliest foes. USC Dornsife experts look back at how water has helped get the creative juices flowing throughout the ages.
Hiram Sims opens the Sims Library of Poetry, a space for people from Inglewood and the rest of Los Angeles to read, write and create.
The crowds are big as the largest literary and cultural event in the nation returns to the USC University Park Campus after a two-year virtual break.