On the business of literature

The following piece by Richard Nash will appear in our Spring 2013 issue, as the lead in a portfolio focused on the business of literature. I. One of the remarkable deficits in contemporary accounts…
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8104 words)

The Intelligence Question

Are black people stupid? Each of us knows black people who are not stupid—possibly even two or three. But what about all those black people we do not know? Those skinny men with the big asses,…
LENGTH: 77 minutes (19360 words)

Grace in Broken Arrow

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. – Psalm 34 No more sleepovers. No more babysitting, or car rides home. No more being alone with children…
LENGTH: 56 minutes (14128 words)

The Test Generation

On exam day in Sabina Trombetta's Colorado Springs first-grade art class, the 6-year-olds were shown a slide of Picasso's "Weeping Woman," a 1937 cubist portrait of the artist's lover, Dora…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5053 words)
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