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Lowell captured Dante’s appeal to readers—Belle included—with his dictum that the poet was “part of the soul’s resources in time of trouble.”
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
He had an astonishing visual memory, wide cultural references, and a graceful style on the page.
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
How strange a life you and other Black people lead, forever seen and unseen, forever heard and silenced.
Caleb Azumah Nelson • Open Water
My project looks instead to current quotidian disasters in order to ask what, if anything, survives this insistent Black exclusion, this ontological negation, and how do literature, performance, and visual culture observe and mediate this un/survival.
Christina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
and Lee K. Abbott’s “Living Alone in Iota” to showcase voice.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
One of the mirages that resides in many books today, of course, for him and for many of us, is the idea of its author being a “middle class writer.” That appellation seems somewhat fantastical, something borne of secret inheritances and side hustles. Becoming one has become the literary version of the illusory American Dream. It rhymes with the “do
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Jared Henderson • Information overload is nothing new
As I write about shattering perspectives and disrupting faux objectivity, I have to remember that there are factors in my life that bolster my voice above others.