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Mr. Morson, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University, is the author of “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Chesterton, John Buchan, Rafael Sabatini and even Sax Rohmer, among a score of others, were — and are — thrilling storytellers, as well as the founders of our modern genre literatures.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023

Now, a lot of people who have emigrated to the U.S. are bringing their literatures into English.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2023

Her mother is professor emeriti of Russian and East European languages and literatures, also at Rutgers.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2018

Rise and fall—this was the doctor’s business, and it was literatures too.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan