• Features

    Teaching High School

    You Can’t Teach High School English Without Hope

    By Nick Ripatrazone  February 24, 2020
    Poets

    When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
    Spanish Civil War

    By W. Jason Miller  February 24, 2020
    Race

    Did Medgar Evers’ Killer Go Free Because of Jury Tampering?

    By Jerry Mitchell  February 24, 2020
    News and Culture

    Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

    By Jean Genet  February 24, 2020
    First Draft

    Tishani Doshi: ‘Literature is a Conversation We Have With Other Writers Dead and Alive’

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 24, 2020
    Emergence Magazine Podcast

    Felling Light: Amaud Jamaul Johnson on the Deep Connections Between Racial and Arboreal Scars

    By Emergence Magazine  February 24, 2020
    But That's Another Story

    Melissa Clark Eats Her Way Through Literature

    By But That's Another Story  February 24, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On House on Fire by Joseph Finder, Read by Holter Graham

    By Behind the Mic   February 24, 2020
    Self-Help?

    Why I Hide From Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help

    By Chelsea Leu  February 21, 2020
    Important Literary Discourse

    5 Literary Classics That Should be Adapted as High School Rom-Coms Immediately

    By Emily Temple  February 21, 2020
    Poets

    Danez Smith: ‘Being a Poet Means Committing to Vulnerability’

    By Sheila Regan  February 21, 2020
    Storytelling

    Relearning to Write After Law School Buried My Voice

    By Akhila Kolisetty  February 21, 2020
    Interview with a Poet

    Victoria Chang on the Self
    and Its Many Deaths

    By Peter Mishler  February 21, 2020
    Sculpture

    Finding Humanity and Humility in Alberto Giacometti

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  February 21, 2020
    Keen On

    Steven Levy on the Real Story Behind Facebook

    By Keen On  February 21, 2020
    New Books Network

    Joan Schweighardt on Environmental Exploitation and Political Activism in the 1910s

    By New Books Network  February 21, 2020
    Religion

    Mindfulness and Meditation Are Flytraps For Our Impulses

    By Stephen Batchelor  February 21, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Craig Pittman on How the Florida Panther Was Brought Back From Near Extinction

    By The Literary Life  February 21, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Cast Away by Naomi Shihab Nye, Read by the Author

    By Behind the Mic   February 21, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    In Conversation with Author Nic Stone and Narrator Dion Graham on Dear Martin

    By Behind the Mic   February 21, 2020
    Adaptations

    In 2020’s Emma., Emma Woodhouse Raids Cher Horowitz’s Wardrobe

    By Emily Temple  February 20, 2020
    American History

    Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre

    By Serena Zabin  February 20, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Erik Larson on How Winston Churchill Still Shows Us True Leadership During Political Turmoil

    By Just the Right Book   February 20, 2020
    Pop Music

    How to Be a Beatles Fan Without Really Trying

    By Sibbie O'Sullivan  February 20, 2020
    Food

    Why Have Humans Always Loved… Beans?

    By Joe Yonan  February 20, 2020
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