Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

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One great short story to read today: </br>James Tadd Adcox's

One great short story to read today:
James Tadd Adcox's "A Haunting"

By Drew Broussard | May 28, 2025

When the Sequoias Burn: Inside the Making of a California Megafire

When the Sequoias Burn: Inside the Making of a California Megafire

Jordan Thomas on the New Challenges Firefighters Face in an Era of Climate Change

By Jordan Thomas | May 28, 2025

How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom

How the Brothers Grimm Became Martyrs to Academic Freedom

Maria Hummel on the Contemporary Echoes of a 19th Century Power Struggle Between Professors, Students, and the State

By Maria Hummel | May 28, 2025

How Curtis Sittenfeld's

How Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife" Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

Jessica Stanley on Political Fiction, Conservative Characters, and Curiosity

By Jessica Stanley | May 28, 2025

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

"All storms are alike yet each speaks to us in its particularity."

By Catherine Bush | May 28, 2025

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How Agricultural Runoff Contaminated One of Iowa's Main Water Sources

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