In her column Untranslatable, Veronica Esposito considers why various words are so difficult to translate. Here, she looks at the…
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When I started reporting The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo Garcia, back in 2016, I had a…
An Archivist for the End of the World Christine Lai Share article An excerpt from Landscapes by Christine Lai September…
For thousands of years, women have been on the fringes of history and mythology. From “The Serpent Queen” Catherine De…
Aurora Mattia’s debut novel The Fifth Wound is a fantastical journey through the formulation of one trans woman’s truth. Mattia’s…
In an era of environmental catastrophe, it’s easy to forget that we are the environment too. The world affected by…
After his wife dies in a sudden car crash, Jimmy Laird numbs his pain for a year. He stays up…
Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a feast of a book. It’s about hunger—the hungers of…
What even is time? I had a couple conversations this past year, some of them surrounding the publication of my…
Children from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Towaoc, Colorado, study the Ute language using new e-learning platform Nuuwayga created…
Adrienne Brodeur’s novel Little Monsters follows the Gardner family over the course of a summer on Cape Cod, the windswept…
I Am a Star in a Galaxy of Grandmothers Study of a supernova at the beach The tulle of my…
Dr. Cornel West / Courtesy of AAE SpeakersCornel West, who recently retired from Princeton University as the Class of 1943…
Women get lonely. Men do, too, but there’s something ineffably unique about female loneliness, which is more vulnerable and open…
In a cold, cruel city indifferent to your fate, an acquaintance from your hometown can be a lifeline, as can…
The fictional characters in most campus novels are almost always undergraduates between the tender ages of eighteen and twenty-two. (Think…
The Real Impact of Imaginary Friends Yiyun Li Share article Such Common Life by Yiyun Li 1. Protein “I thought…
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will host a book signing with…