A Universe of Enterprising Divas: Raphael Cormack‘s Midnight in Cairo
In Midnight in Cairo, the lives of the enterprising divas are interlinked.
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Posts Tagged: nationalism
That Moment of Transition: Talking with Musa Okwonga
Musa Okwonga discusses IN THE END, IT WAS ALL ABOUT LOVE and ONE OF THEM.
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Reimagining the Whole Damn World: A Conversation with Sonora Jha
Sonora Jha discusses her new book, HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON.
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What Society Allows Us to Be: Megha Majumdar’s A Burning
What does it mean to be free?
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The Right to Lawfully Kill
I say the world is on fire. I say I’m seeing things.
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Always the Story First: A Conversation with Jenny Bhatt
Jenny Bhatt discusses her debut story collection, EACH OF US KILLERS.
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Reclaiming History from the Bigots: Jill Lepore’s This America
History itself is not so conveniently tidy, and neither is this book.
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The Promise of Werfel’s Musa Dagh: Portraying Genocide in Fiction
How does a fictional account come to stand in for history?
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Leveling Up: A Conversation with Lyz Lenz
Lyz Lenz discusses her debut book, GOD LAND.
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I Am a Camera: Talking with Ali Fitzgerald
Ali Fitzgerald discusses her new graphic memoir, DRAWN TO BERLIN.
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Emboldened to Ask: A Conversation with Natalie Singer
Natalie Singer discusses her debut memoir, CALIFORNIA CALLING.
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Every Woman Is a Nation unto Herself: A Conversation with Sabina Murray
Sabina Murray discusses the novel Valiant Gentleman, writing characters that are fundamentally different from herself, and confronting issues of colonization.
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Well, it’s been one week under the Trump administration, and already we are living in a land of “alternative facts.” After Kellyanne Conway used the term to defend Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s falsehoods regarding the inauguration crowd size on Sunday, the American people were, understandably, reminded of George Orwell’s 1984, and sales of the book […]
...moreBrown Bag Your American Literature, Quick
Michael Gove, Britain’s Education Secretary, is rewriting Britain’s public school curriculum to be more British. To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and The Crucible are among the titles being dropped from required reading lists. “I put this in the context of what’s going on in Europe and the world at large, which is […]
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