I remember reading such a story, maybe in the New Yorker or The Atlantic, in the 1990s or early 2000s. There were hearts and diamonds and clubs and spades throughout the story (printed the same size as the type font, like wingdings or webdings symbols) in place of words. The story was written in ...

I read this in Hamlet: What may this mean, That thou, dead corpse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon... I'm unable to figure out what the correct interpretation semantically of the bold part would be. Some sources like this and this suggest that it m...

The children's books by Kazuo Iwamura belong to the best I know, among them the series of the "14 forest mice". To my knowledge they have been translated twice into German, the first time they were published in the 80s bei the "Meisinger Verlag", which seems to have disappeared by now, and recent...

Topic challenges for Literature SE were first proposed and enacted in March 2017. The motivation for these, as well as to bring our users together in a community activity of reading the same books or stories together at roughly the same time, is to increase the diversity of literature covered on ...

Author challenge: Munshi Premchand (Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava) Since this site needs more questions about non-Western literature, I'm submitting a proposal for one of the most important 20th-century authors from India. Munshi Premchand (1880 – 1936) is not well known in the West, even though he "i...

The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant (1850 – 1893) was probably the most important 19th-century French author of short stories. Some of them are very well known, e.g. Boule de Suif. His stories are now in the public domain. Many of his stories are available on Wikisource in...

The works of Theodor Fontane The German novelist and poet Theodor Fontane (1819 - 1898), whose bicentenary was celebrated last year is known as a representative of realism and is known for novels such as Effi Briest, Frau Jenny Treibel and Der Stechlin. His works are now in the public domain; se...

Gargantua and Pantagruel The series of five novels on Gargantua and Pantagruel by the French humanist François Rabelais (between 1483 and 1494 – 9 April 1553) are, as Wikipedia says, "written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and [feature] much crudity, scatological humor, and viol...

Magda Szabó Magda Szabó was a Hungarian author who wrote novels, poetry, essays, short stories, etc. Her works have been translated into many languages, many of them into English. These include: The Door (Az ajtó), a 1987 story about the complex relationship between a woman (who may be modelle...

Maltese literature The Maltese language is unique in the world. With only around half a million speakers worldwide, it's the only Semitic language which is an official language of a European/EU country, and the only Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet. It's similar to Arabic, but evol...

The Shahnameh The Shahnameh (شاهنامه) is perhaps the most historically important piece of literature in the Persian language. Written just over one thousand years ago, it is one of the longest epic poems, relating the mythical and historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the wo...

Author challenge: Nick Joaquin Nick Joaquin (1917 – 2004) was a Filipino journalist and author whose works include the following: A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1950), which is regarded as the "national play of the Philippines", The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961), which is considered a...