Features
Essays on arts and culture from around Michigan and around the world
Why Do You Read?
The Writer’s Playground
Fandom and Shared Suffering in the Work of John Darnielle
Hoarding Notes: The Uselessness of the Writer’s Notebook
2017 Guide to Michigan’s Summer Literary Festivals
Truth, Sex, and Ego: On Women’s Diaries
Baharestan and the Persian New Year
Object of Desire
Stories We Tell Of Ourselves: The Enneagram, Eliot, Emerson, and Trump
Modern Iran Through Its Novels
How to Hold Multiple Truths to be Self-Evident: Late Thoughts After the Women’s March
Why an Iranian TV Show Hates Iranian Movies
The Poetics of Involuntary Pauses
Gertrude Stein: A Portrait of the Artist
Good Material: Toward Rigor and Resolution in the New Year
Delicate Things: Finding Francesca Woodman
When Scripts Are Not Enough: Finding Your Voice Post-Election
Ears on the Floor: Poetry of Witness in a Post-Truth Era
Let It Begin with Me
Story of a Fire
