Features
Essays on arts and culture from around Michigan and around the world
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
The Only Question Left To Be Settled Now
