The central theme in the Japanese light novel/manga Toradora! (とらドラ!) around which the entire story unfolds is the love triangle between the male protagonist Takasu Ryuji and his two girl friends, Aisaka Taiga and Kushieda Minori (Minorin). At the beginning of the story Ryuji has a crush on Minor...
Mem and Zin (Mem û Zîn)
This story is one of the most important works of Kurdish literature - a language group so far entirely unrepresented on our site. It's a Romeo & Juliet style romantic tragedy, written by Ahmad Khani in 1692 based on oral traditions. It's been adapted into a film (in Turkis...
It is an exceptional case but still worthy of attention, I feel.
Currently on EL&U, there is a question about a single word in Joyce's novel, “Finnegans Wake”
Meaning of “bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk!” The title is so wonder...
The classical Persian epic poem the Shahnameh was written over a millennium ago, 977-1010 CE, compiled in verse form from traditional mythology and history by the poet Ferdowsi. Wikipedia tells us about some of the illustrated manuscripts, including the Great Mongol manuscript, which is apparentl...
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin tells the story of Riley, and the story of her navigating a new school, people bullying him, and being outed as genderfluid to their family.
Recently on Writing Twitter, there's been a lot of discussion about Ownvoices (a member of a marginalized community w...
Rowling recently came out as a radical feminist, but the book series she is famous for seems to have some problems from that perspective.
For instance, the main character is a male, anointed as the chosen one. (He even bears a stigmata, a tiny scar, but nothing extreme like Sparrowhawk's horrific...
