With a resurgence of Melville-themed art across the multimedia landscape, Stanford Humanities Center Fellow Joseph Boone says the legendary writer has become a 21st-century muse for artists – including Boone himself.
Stanford scholar Héctor Hoyos' research goes beyond famed writers to uncover a whole generation of Latin American authors who are contributing novel perspectives on the evolving landscape of global culture.
Through a study of the history of the French colonial Congo-Océan Railway, Stanford historian JP Daughton has discovered how modern humanitarianism arose from the brutality of European colonialism.
A pioneering textual analysis of French political speeches led by Stanford Professor of French Cécile Alduy reveals how Marine Le Pen, leader of France's surging far-right National Front, has made extremism palatable in a land of republican values.
On the 70th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Stanford professor emeritus of history Barton J. Bernstein writes about the only member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who spoke against the targeting of Japanese noncombatants.
Adam Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Stanford associate professor of English, speaks to The Wall Street Journal about his new short-story collection, Fortune Smiles.