Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

Writing a Book About My Whiteness Forced Me to Confront My Own Lies

Baynard Woods on the Infinite Gap Between Self-Conception and Material Reality

By Baynard Woods | July 20, 2022

Evergreen words to live by, from Alice Dunbar Nelson.

Evergreen words to live by, from Alice Dunbar Nelson.

By Katie Yee | July 19, 2022

Read the short story that just won this year's Caine Prize for African Writing.

Read the short story that just won this year's Caine Prize for African Writing.

By Dan Sheehan | July 19, 2022

Drool over the personal bookplates of 18 famous writers.

Drool over the personal bookplates of 18 famous writers.

By Emily Temple | July 19, 2022

A historic lesbian-owned queer bookstore is fighting to stay open.

A historic lesbian-owned queer bookstore is fighting to stay open.

By Corinne Segal | July 19, 2022

Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion

Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion

Elvia Wilk Considers Fangirls, Possibility, and the Views from Many Somewheres

By Elvia Wilk | July 19, 2022

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“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

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How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

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Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia | July 19, 2022

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

By Liska Jacobs | July 19, 2022

How Trying to Find a Cure For Scurvy Led to the Gimlet

How Trying to Find a Cure For Scurvy Led to the Gimlet

On Limey and Limes on British Royal Navy ships

By Camper English | July 19, 2022

Rebecca Giggs Explains How Very Small Beings Are Often Responsible For Vast Surges of Life

Rebecca Giggs Explains How Very Small Beings Are Often Responsible For Vast Surges of Life

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 19, 2022

My Journey to Writing Children’s Books Began with a Colicky Baby

My Journey to Writing Children’s Books Began with a Colicky Baby

Christina Geist on Her Picture Book Playbook

By Christina Geist | July 19, 2022

The comic strip that every artist needs to read.

The comic strip that every artist needs to read.

By Emily Temple | July 18, 2022

Searching For a Lost Medieval City Somewhere in Wales

Searching For a Lost Medieval City Somewhere in Wales

A Lay-Archaeologist, Pissed-Off Professionals, and Some Farmland Near the Forest of Dean

By Matthew Green | July 18, 2022

More Than Just Power and Oppression: Six Books About Patriarchs

More Than Just Power and Oppression: Six Books About Patriarchs

Taymour Soomro on Stories of Resistance, Loneliness, and Inheritance.

By Taymour Soomro | July 18, 2022

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