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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…
Sure, graphic novels and memoirs are the latest literary rage, but have you heard about graphic poetry? Many contemporary women…
I seldom promote binaries, but I think it’s safe to say that there are two types of stories at work…
“What might this be?” had been a question that, in the course of my thirty-five-year career as a clinical psychologist,…
There is a long history of Ghanaians leaving home to settle elsewhere, often in other countries on the continent, and…
Tania James’s novel Loot is a deeply affecting, deliciously imaginative spin on how 18th century Mysorean Ruler, Tipu Sultan’s infamous…