Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures

Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures

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By Jerald Walker | September 10, 2024

How the Violence of Partition Forged National Identity in South Asia

How the Violence of Partition Forged National Identity in South Asia

From Joya Chatterji's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Shadows at Noon”

By Joya Chatterji | September 10, 2024

Here's the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

Here's the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

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American universities continue to punish pro-Palestinian speech.

American universities continue to punish pro-Palestinian speech.

By Brittany Allen | September 9, 2024

Here's the shortlist for the 2024 American Library in Paris Book Award.

Here's the shortlist for the 2024 American Library in Paris Book Award.

By Literary Hub | September 9, 2024

Modern Gun Ownership is Just Another Consumer Fantasy About Empowerment

Modern Gun Ownership is Just Another Consumer Fantasy About Empowerment

Alex Trimble Young Wants to Tell a Different Story of US Gun Culture

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Sara Fitzgerald on Unrequited Love and a Recently Declassified Epistolary Correspondence

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Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the Page

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Itoro Bassey on the Gift of Being Understood

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Poetry and Painting: Visualizing Verse on the Page and the Canvas

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Cynthia Zarin and Rose Seccareccia Explore Their Shared Family Pastimes of Art and Literature

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Suffering, Grace and Redemption: How The Bronx Came to Be

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Reckoning and Refoundation: How the Tokyo Trials Created Modern Asia

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