Roman Stories – Jhumpa Lahiri
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by Amber Ruth Paulen
1h ago
Each character’s Roman sea is quite different, but the similarity remains: Each has been tossed up on its shore ..read more
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Ecstatic Truth in the Age of American “Truthiness”: On Werner Herzog’s The Twilight World
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by Joe Sacksteder
1d ago
The triangulation of the novel and “fake news” and Werner Herzog’s whole deal signals discomfiting connections between the United States’ current flirtations with authoritarianism and certain notions of artistic freedom ..read more
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Nefando — Mónica Ojeda
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by Anna Learn
2d ago
When translator Sarah Booker came to Coffee House with pitches for the translation of both novels of Ojeda’s, the press thought it best to have JAWBONE precede NEFANDO, allowing the former to serve as amuse bouche to the latter’s more toothsome topics. [TW: sexual abuse, child abuse ..read more
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Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones
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by Alana Mohamed
3d ago
It’s easier to stay in a place that’s known to you even if it’s hurting you. So there’s a question of loyalty, whether to your country or your family, that is complicated by being a colony ..read more
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An Antisemitism Studies Primer
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by Shane Burley
4d ago
Often, the kind of research getting funded, printed, and promoted has more to do with the agenda of those writing the checks, the institutions that support them, and the schools who are stacking their faculty rolls, than the provable consequence of the research ..read more
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If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display – Nick Thran
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by Rex Bowman
1w ago
If It Gets Quiet Later On is its own tabletop display, a grouping of poems, short stories, and essays connected (mostly) by Thran’s life as a writer, reader, and bookseller ..read more
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On the Poetics of Congregation amid Dispossession: A Conversation
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by Abdul Manan Bhat and Partha P. Chakrabartty
1w ago
The ghazal is a cumulative form that builds on established metaphors in a non-linear fashion. . . . I see tremendous liberatory potential in its cumulativeness. . . . When writing a ghazal, my poetic voice is not just my own, just like my pain is not just my own ..read more
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The Caretaker – Doon Arbus
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by Lora Maslenitsyna
1w ago
The caretaker tries to keep the objects in his collection from speaking about the lives they have lived . . . reducing them to mere list of objects. The more he fights the resonance of their voices, the more they resist becoming metaphors of the past ..read more
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Joseph Grantham
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by Sebastian Castillo
1w ago
I try my best not to think too hard about categorizing what is part of my work as an "artist" or "writer" and what's a diversion ..read more
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Cross-Stitch – Jazmina Barrera
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by Cecilia Weddell
1w ago
Fragments scattered throughout the novel tell of women who used embroidery to share messages, whether to reassure loved ones of their well-being (prisoners in World War II camps), call for help after being silenced (Ovid’s Philomela), or protest political injustice (activists denouncing the violence of the Pinochet dictatorship ..read more
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