Here are the winners of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes.

Here are the winners of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes.

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Small Rebellions: Erika L. Sánchez on Writing the Characters She Wanted to Read

Small Rebellions: Erika L. Sánchez on Writing the Characters She Wanted to Read

”I rarely found portrayals of anyone like me—bookish and poor and surly and Brown—in the art that I enjoyed.”

By Erika L. Sánchez | July 14, 2022

Lost in Translation: When the United States Met Pablo Picasso

Lost in Translation: When the United States Met Pablo Picasso

Hugh Eakin on John Quinn, the Man Who First Introduced America to Modern Art and New Ideas

By Hugh Eakin | July 14, 2022

Dispatches From the Imaginative Childhood of a Future Pilot

Dispatches From the Imaginative Childhood of a Future Pilot

Or, How an Atlas is the Most Transportive Book of All

By Mark Vanhoenacker | July 14, 2022

On Finding Solace Among Nature’s Gentlest of Giants, the Gray Whale

On Finding Solace Among Nature’s Gentlest of Giants, the Gray Whale

"Even in the constant darkness of the polar winter, each aġviq finds plenty to sing about."

By Doreen Cunningham | July 14, 2022

Amy B. Reid on Translating the Very Book She Needed to Read

Amy B. Reid on Translating the Very Book She Needed to Read

On Mutt-Lon's The Blunder

By Amy B. Reid | July 14, 2022

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When Arthur Conan Doyle showed up at his own memorial service. (Maybe.)

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Joy Harjo is publishing a children’s book, and it sounds incredible.

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Why are we all so into witches right now?

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A rare-book dealer has been charged with selling stolen Eagles lyrics.

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Eating is Storytelling: Ruby Tandoh on Turning Meals into Memories

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“It’s about engaging all of your senses, and letting food, body, craving and daydream all bleed into one.”

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When Writing Becomes Traumatic: Reporting on the Jonestown Massacre

When Writing Becomes Traumatic: Reporting on the Jonestown Massacre

Julia Scheeres on the Things She Saw (and the Toll They Took)

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How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

Damien Lewis on an American Icon's Transformation from Dancer to Spy

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