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The Lonely Voice and the Public Art of Criticism: A Reflection in Fragments

adapted from The Work of the Living: Modernism, the Artist-Critic, and the Public Craft of Criticism When E.M. Forster took to the lectern to deliver the Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, from January to March of 1927, he was a novelist dispirited. Writing and drawing from the deep wells of his youthful experiences had […]

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adapted from The Work of the Living: Modernism, the Artist-Critic, and the Public Craft of Criticism When E.M. Forster took to the lectern to deliver the Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, from January to March of 1927, he was a novelist dispirited. Writing and drawing from the deep wells of his youthful experiences had

I AM THE SPEAKER OF THE POEM: An Interview with Adele Elise Williams

The poet, editor, and educator Adele Elise Williams brings a radical femininity and realness to the page that is uniquely hers. WAGER, her debut release selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series, is steeped in a deep respect for tradition–both literary and familial, yet remakes formality with her distinct fingerprint while

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The poet, editor, and educator Adele Elise Williams brings a radical femininity and realness to the page that is uniquely hers. WAGER, her debut release selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series, is steeped in a deep respect for tradition–both literary and familial, yet remakes formality with her distinct fingerprint while

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The Capacity of Male Friendship in Hisham Matar’s My Friends

My Friends is a brilliant political novel. Hisham Matar’s third work of fiction highlights several historical events, most importantly, Libyan officials’ shooting of anti-Qaddafi protestors at the London embassy (1984) and the Libyan Revolution (2011). Through his melancholic chronicle of Khaled, Hosam, and Mustafa, all Libyan exiles in the UK, Matar reminds us of the

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My Friends is a brilliant political novel. Hisham Matar’s third work of fiction highlights several historical events, most importantly, Libyan officials’ shooting of anti-Qaddafi protestors at the London embassy (1984) and the Libyan Revolution (2011). Through his melancholic chronicle of Khaled, Hosam, and Mustafa, all Libyan exiles in the UK, Matar reminds us of the

Liberation Pedagogy at the People’s University for Gaza

Driving back to our apartment from the ‘Liberated Zone’ on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor Campus, I asked my friend, “What if this encampment went on forever?” The encampment’s social and economic structure seemed utopic. “It’s a glimpse into what a liberated world could look like,” my comrade replied. The utopic nature of the

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Driving back to our apartment from the ‘Liberated Zone’ on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor Campus, I asked my friend, “What if this encampment went on forever?” The encampment’s social and economic structure seemed utopic. “It’s a glimpse into what a liberated world could look like,” my comrade replied. The utopic nature of the

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Seven Ages’ Madness

Like all other important world cities, the great city of Aarhus, Denmark, has its own chronicler; an eminent writer whose accumulated fiction has become a topography by which readers can navigate the city. Paris has Honoré de Balzac, London has Charles Dickens, Barcelona has Carlos Ruiz Zafón, San Francisco has Armistead Maupin, and Aarhus has

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Like all other important world cities, the great city of Aarhus, Denmark, has its own chronicler; an eminent writer whose accumulated fiction has become a topography by which readers can navigate the city. Paris has Honoré de Balzac, London has Charles Dickens, Barcelona has Carlos Ruiz Zafón, San Francisco has Armistead Maupin, and Aarhus has

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