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Top 10 Most Popular Languages Which Languages Are Used the Most in the World Today? Martin Puddy/ Stone/ Getty Images By Matt Rosenberg Thought Co. There are 6,909 languages actively being spoken in the world today, although only about six percent of them have more than a million speakers each. As globalization becomes more common so does the learning of languages. People in many different count..

The Private Franz Kafka Revealing new editions of Franz Kafka’s drawings, diaries and short reflections. A photograph of Franz Kafka on his grave in the Prague Jewish Cemetery.PHOTO: CUM OKOLO/ALAMY By Max Norman Wall Street Journal, Feb. 17, 2023 Before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1924, a month shy of his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod..

Why Turgenev Remains One of the Most Important Russian Writers (And Why You Should Read the Constance Garnett Translation) Josh Billings on the Pocket Universes of a True Literary Master By Josh Billings Literary Hub, December 19, 2022 1. The English novel at the end of the 19th century had a problem, and that problem was French. Emile Zola had thrown the first stone. In his 1875 manifesto, Le R..

The Forgotten Sisters Who Pioneered the Historical Novel Jane and Anna Maria Porter ruled Britain’s literary scene—until male imitators wrote them out of the story The Misses Porter (as they were sometimes called) arguably created the modern historical novel, weaving fascinating, romantic tales out of facts and events culled from history books. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via New York ..

Why Write? By Elisa Gabbert The Paris Review July 6, 2022 Photograph of light on water by Aayugoyal. Licensed under CC0 4.0. I encountered Joan Didion’s famous line about why she writes—“entirely to find out what I’m thinking”—many times before I read the essay it comes from, and was reminded once again to never assume you know what anything means out of context. I had always thought the line wa..

The last days of Percy Bysshe Shelley It was 200 years ago that Shelley drowned, aged 29 – but his poems of tyranny and freedom speak to our own darkening age. By Frances Wilson The New Statesman, 6 July 2022 The Funeral of Shelley Louis Édouard Fournier, 1889. Alamy Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it. Percy Bysshe Shelley, clothed in black, lies on the branches of the funeral..

Will literature survive? We have fallen out of love with good writing BY Mary Gaitskill Unherd, June 17, 2022 Mary Gaitskill is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her Substack is called Out Of It, from where this piece is adapted. As a fiction writer who teaches, I often speak about what I love in fiction, what to me makes it powerful and engaging. This is a version of a tal..

The Sunny Side of American Life Why our greatest writers found their inspiration in misery and failure David Mikics The Arts & Letters Daily June 08, 2022 Original artworks, from left: Jerome Myers, ‘Old House on 29th St. East of 3rd Ave. N.Y.,’ undated; Adelaide Morris, ‘3:00 a.m.,’ undated; John R. Grabach, ‘The Lone House (The Empty House),’ circa 1929; Richard Sargent, ‘Red House,’ undatedSm..

Reflections of the elusive Jean Rhys The novelist wrote four dark, slyly autobiographical novels – then vanished for 25 years. A new biography hopes to separate the woman from the work By Anna Leszkiewicz The New Statesman 6 June 2022 Jean Rhys, 1974. © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images In 1977, when she was in her late eighties, the novelist Jean Rhys asked an actor ..

Literary festivals: sheer hell in a tent To make people laugh for an hour is good business sense — but it says nothing about writing, or creativity, or art By Alexander Larman The Critic, June 2022 Every author, whether an established titan or a quivering neophyte, has a golden expectation of what their first — or indeed subsequent — literary festival will be like. The location will be a charmin..