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Literature

Posted inEditor's Pick

How Literary Translation Can Shift the Tides of Power

by Krista Stevens February 2, 2023February 2, 2023

“I am just one parent. What if more parents read translated books with their children?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Misdirectives

by Seyward Darby January 11, 2023January 11, 2023

“A public high school teacher asks why the wrong things cause a fuss in schools.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 7, 2022October 19, 2022

“Fifty years ago, a Kansas family picked up a hitchhiker on their way to Iowa. What happened on that drive became part of literary history.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘The Ways of Fiction Are Devious Indeed’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 11, 2022October 19, 2022

Sands Hall, a playwright and daughter of author Oakley Hall, digs into the work of Wallace Stegner — specifically his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Angle of Repose, which is based on the life of Mary Hallock Foote. “[W]e often fold in the real with the invented,” writes Hall, but when does inspiration become plagiarism? Yet in […]

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On Writing: An Abecedarian

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 28, 2022October 19, 2022

“To be inside the cathedral of a language is to be inside a particular view of the world.”

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We Need to Translate More Armenian Literature

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“We need them to assert our very existence.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Function and Language of Ancient Sexual Texts

by Aaron Gilbreath May 4, 2020October 19, 2022

A fascinating look at so-called obscenity, then and now.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Novelist Charles Portis Was a True Original

by Aaron Gilbreath February 24, 2020October 19, 2022

Every Portis fan has a different favorite passage from his novels, but they agree on one thing: no one wrote like Portis.

Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Early Years of Elif Batuman’s Interest in Russian Authors

by Aaron Gilbreath January 24, 2020October 19, 2022

How a college student’s scholarly investigation into whether Tolstoy was murdered led to her first book, about the people obsessed with Russian literature.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

In Defense of Boris the Russki

by Ayşegül Savaş January 22, 2020December 30, 2022

Ayşegül Savaş calls into question a kind of racism in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, and laments the liberal reluctance to rebuke discrimination outright, regardless of its targets.

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