Two new books of Jewish poetry form a bridge to the aftermath of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom — and also speak to us today.
On October 28, a ceremony was held in the main conference room of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam ...
“Tell me honestly… were you tempted to cheat?” There was a silence — the kind of silence that only very clever people know how to make. Then: “I mean — do you use AI?” ...
The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two. Although last year marked the centenary of her birth, the occasion passed ...
Exactly how much reading of whole books—especially novels—students should be doing is a contested topic, with no clear ...
The novel is two books in one: an imagined account of her mother’s early years in Shanghai and the U.S., and a fictionalized ...

The Case for Whole Books

The Common Core has now been around long enough that it’s all that many of the students we teach in college have known, and ...
The Museum of Unnatural Histories” takes readers on a confusing, 104-page journey through a disjointed collection of times and spaces.
Yellow Flower Gills Me Whole exhibits a perspective that seems to sit outside of time. At times, Ghosh’s poems shift between humorous, profound, risqué and sensual. Others suggest a profound ...
The invitation is to perform what Douglas-Fairhurst calls ‘slow reading’ – a term he borrows from Nietzsche, who thought that ...
A plant-supporting wall system inspired by the UAE’s salt flats, or sabkhas, is being presented by designer group Hala ...
Brandi Carlile offers track-by-track background and commentary on all 10 songs from 'Returning to Myself,' including 'Church ...