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War Will Take, Love Will Bury: A Review of Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort

Music for the Dead and Resurrected is a timely antidote to popular over-identifications with nationally sanctioned narratives, the kind that disappears the nuanced stories that help shape an individual’s sense of home and purpose.

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Music for the Dead and Resurrected is a timely antidote to popular over-identifications with nationally sanctioned narratives, the kind that disappears the nuanced stories that help shape an individual’s sense of home and purpose.

Maya Dobjensky and Tea Obreht Head Shots

The Privacy of Magic: An Interview with Tea Obreht

My writing can’t get away from the space in which it’s possible to commune with the dead, to have a second chance reckoning with those who are gone. I believe in hauntings, but I’m not entirely sure I believe in an afterlife. My writing likes to keep that door open all the time.

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My writing can’t get away from the space in which it’s possible to commune with the dead, to have a second chance reckoning with those who are gone. I believe in hauntings, but I’m not entirely sure I believe in an afterlife. My writing likes to keep that door open all the time.

white puzzle pieces, some together, some not, against a purple background

Diamonds and Squares

I imagine a conversation between the two I’d just missed before the photo was taken, possibly right before one takes a sip, and the other takes a bite. The conversation might have been similar to one I’d had with my own mother, where I, as a teenager, asked questions expecting that—maybe this time—I would feel satisfied with her answers.

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I imagine a conversation between the two I’d just missed before the photo was taken, possibly right before one takes a sip, and the other takes a bite. The conversation might have been similar to one I’d had with my own mother, where I, as a teenager, asked questions expecting that—maybe this time—I would feel satisfied with her answers.

Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature

Toni Morrison passed away late last night, at the age of 88. May she rest in power, and may we treasure gratefully  all she has written.  Here are her words from our Archives. Toni Morrison’s speech “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” was given as the Turner Lecture on Human Values October 7th,

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Toni Morrison passed away late last night, at the age of 88. May she rest in power, and may we treasure gratefully  all she has written.  Here are her words from our Archives. Toni Morrison’s speech “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” was given as the Turner Lecture on Human Values October 7th,

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