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Ploughshares

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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • February 24, 2021
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • August 23, 2017
A weekly roundup of essays we're reading online!
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The Generosity of Kristin Dombek

  • Kirstin Allio
  • October 13, 2016
In her new book, The Selfishness of Others, Kristin Dombek turns her deliberate inquisition and dry humor on the suddenly ubiquitous if “sketchy” word narcissism. In conversation with Laura Creste…
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Voting Across the Pages

  • Guia Cortassa
  • October 11, 2016
The political becoming local and, in effect, personal, is what I think we saw playing out all across Columbia last week.  If Ocosingo War Diary teaches us anything, it’s that…
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Finding Your Voice

  • Stephanie Bento
  • October 5, 2016
Authenticity of voice can only come from authentic work. And authentic work doesn’t come from the head; it’s an outgrowth of authentic feeling. In a post for the Ploughshares blog,…
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Where Our Favorite Stories Lived

  • Guia Cortassa
  • October 4, 2016
Particularly in the case of children’s writers, some part of me might hope that these tourist sites will be living manifestations of beloved stories, of stories that seemed like physical…
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You Are Never Alone If There’s a Poem

  • Tamara Matthews
  • September 27, 2016
I’ve often wondered if my turn to poetry in times of loneliness and uncertainty is a behavior that’s naturally implicit within the genre or if it upholds some cliché notion…
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Diversity for the Campus Novel

  • Michelle Vider
  • September 19, 2016
At Ploughshares, Bryan Washington explores the lack of racial diversity in the “campus novel” genre, where the students rebelling against their educational establishments are still overwhelmingly white.
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A Tumblr Full of Lolitas

  • Tamara Matthews
  • September 6, 2016
On the Ploughshares blog, Mishka Hoosen explores the phenomenon of young women claiming for themselves the “nymphet” moniker on various Tumblr pages. Hoosen argues that it is more than simplistic fetishization…
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Jaquira Díaz

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • August 17, 2016
Jaquira Díaz discusses the challenge of writing about family members, her greatest joy as a writer, and her literary role models.
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Carving the Uncanny Valley

  • Roxie Pell
  • August 16, 2016
Any Luddite with half a brain has already begun stockpiling nonperishables for the inevitable moment the robots rise up against us. Over at the Ploughshares blog, Joelle Renstrom recounts how…
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Rooting for Folk Tales

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 19, 2016
But the question that’s been on my mind for a while now is how and why we’ve come to recognize certain tales as perennial (and universal) and have relegated others…
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