Contexts and Experiences of the African Diaspora: A Reading List

Contexts and Experiences of the African Diaspora: A Reading List

Toyin Falola Recommends Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina, Trevor Noah, and More

By Toyin Falola | April 17, 2023

How Spiritualism Influenced a Divisive But Brilliant Australian Novelist

How Spiritualism Influenced a Divisive But Brilliant Australian Novelist

Cameron Hurst on Contacting the Spirit of Henry Handel Richardson

By Cameron Hurst | April 17, 2023

No One’s Suffering is Banal: Cathleen Schine on the Intricacy of Writing Trauma

No One’s Suffering is Banal: Cathleen Schine on the Intricacy of Writing Trauma

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 17, 2023

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker on the Power of Decentering Human Experience in Poetry

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker on the Power of Decentering Human Experience in Poetry

Peter Mishler Talks With the Author of Dereliction

By Peter Mishler | April 17, 2023

The Bolt Bus Was My Biweekly Bardo: Life Between Writer and Daughter

The Bolt Bus Was My Biweekly Bardo: Life Between Writer and Daughter

Blair Hurley on the Inability to Sustain Her Writer-Self on Weekends

By Blair Hurley | April 17, 2023

Margo Jefferson on Ella Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and the Refraction of Her Life Through Memoir

Margo Jefferson on Ella Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and the Refraction of Her Life Through Memoir

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 17, 2023

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A Woman Meets an Owl, a Rattlesnake, and a Hummingbird: a Short Story by Greg Sarris

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Grant Lindsley on What He Learned in His Stumbling Search for Wisdom in a Thai Forest Monastery

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is an Uncanny, Stirring Film and a Worthy Tribute to Haruki Murakami

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<em>Renfield</em> Doesn’t Know What to Do With Itself

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Jena Friedman Gives Male Comedians the Female Media Treatment

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Pattiann Rogers on the Scientific Underpinnings of Poetry

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“Poets judge their own reactions to the words and the forms they have chosen.”

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Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

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The Author of My Life in Pictures Talks to Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life

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How Ru Paul Created a Castle for Queer Beauty

How Ru Paul Created a Castle for Queer Beauty

Sasha Velour on Disguises, Reveals, and Reality TV

By Sasha Velour | April 14, 2023

“Prompt,” a Poem by Rebecca Foust

“Prompt,” a Poem by Rebecca Foust

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By Rebecca Foust | April 14, 2023

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