I have a vivid memory of one of my first meaningful failures as a high school English teacher. I was convinced I could recreate the same kind of inspirational experience I had experienced in the ...

Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

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School Literature menu should be balanced and all inclusive. This is the thesis of Abenea Ndago’s article ‘Study books relevant but lack Kenyan face’ in The Standard On Saturday December 8. Yet ...