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Land Theft: The Alarming Racial Wealth Gap in America Today

Land Theft: The Alarming Racial Wealth Gap in America Today

Brea Baker on Black Land Ownership, Historical Injustice, and the Hope for Black Americans to Own More than One Percent of the Land

By Brea Baker | June 20, 2024

Tracy Chevalier Has No Time for Writers Who Don't Read

Tracy Chevalier Has No Time for Writers Who Don't Read

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Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead's <em>Stay Here with Me</em>

Exposing Vulnerability: On Robert Olmstead's Stay Here with Me

"It is contrary, it cuts against the grain, including the grain of Olmstead’s own work."

By Brock Clarke | June 20, 2024

How Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language

How Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language

Steven Mithen on the Science of Language Acquisition in Early Childhood

By Steven Mithen | June 20, 2024

Do Authors Really Need to Spend Their Own Money to Make a Book Successful?

Do Authors Really Need to Spend Their Own Money to Make a Book Successful?

Maris Kreizman on Independent Publicists, Books Tours, and Vanishing Book Coverage

By Maris Kreizman | June 20, 2024

Nicolás Medina Mora on Mexico’s First Woman President and the Country’s Political Future

Nicolás Medina Mora on Mexico’s First Woman President and the Country’s Political Future

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Matt Gallagher on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 20, 2024

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"Wrong Winds," a Poem by Ahmad Almallah

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The Paradox of the Contemporary Southern Writer

The Paradox of the Contemporary Southern Writer

Levi Vonk on Summer Brenner's "Dust" and the Necessary Work of Writing About the South

By Levi Vonk | June 18, 2024

How Much of This is True? On the Subtle Nuances of Memoir and Autofiction

How Much of This is True? On the Subtle Nuances of Memoir and Autofiction

“We are all unreliable narrators, recounting our stories through the filters of perception and memory.”

By Matt Young | June 18, 2024

Ananda Lima on Conquering Pre-Publication Anxiety With Crafting

Ananda Lima on Conquering Pre-Publication Anxiety With Crafting

“I had to let go of my fear or embarrassment. Make mistakes, have things look a little wonky. Laugh at myself.”

By Ananda Lima | June 18, 2024

Dreaming in English of Dreaming in Kashmiri: What You Can Only Express in One Language

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How a Young Harriet Tubman Found Solace in Syncretic Religion

How a Young Harriet Tubman Found Solace in Syncretic Religion

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Finding What Works: Alex DiFrancesco on Transness and Spirituality

Finding What Works: Alex DiFrancesco on Transness and Spirituality

“I wanted something that I could claim as my own, something steeped in who I was as a person.”

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Morgan Talty on Rejecting “Exoticized Foreknowledge”

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