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Reflecting on Prof. Elizabeth Wallace’s impact—at UChicago and across the world
As a testament to her profound impact, in May 1955, President and Chancellor Robert Hutchins sent Wallace a telegram for her ...
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The most influential American sci-fi writers
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The American Picture Book’s Unsung Parent: Japan
Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...
The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...
The Atlantic Publishes ‘The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),’ Recognizing the Most Consequential Poetry Collections of the Past 25 Years
T oday The Atlantic launches “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),” a new editorial project that brings ...
An Iranian American Rom-Com That Breaks the Mold
Mariam Rahmani’s debut novel is both charmingly familiar and totally unpredictable.
The College Fix5d
New literary prize inspires students to write next ‘Great American Novel’
The winning novelist at Ark Press, a new genre fiction publishing company, will receive a prize of $10,000 and have their ...
Reader's Digest14d
74 Black-Owned Bookstores to Buy from Today—and Every Day
“We focus on African American literature and cultural events. But we also have white authors. We have Indigenous Americans. We have LatinX authors. We have everything,” says Tompkins.
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PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and aids writers in peril.
PEN Canada is now accepting English-language submissions for the 2025 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. The annual award supports and celebrates emerging talent in Canadian literature. Unpublished ...
Des Moines Register20d
Fearing federal DEI policies, Waterloo schools withdrew from African American reading event
Read-ins are a gathering where books written by African American authors are read. The events can be hosted by schools, churches, libraries, bookstores or community organizations. The University ...
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The Wunderkind Novel, Two Decades Later
It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Russell had already been chosen as one of the best young American novelists by Granta four years earlier, and she received a MacArthur “Genius Grant ...
Middle East Eye21d
These four books show how Israeli-American savagery is on the losing side of history
The constellation of these four non-Palestinian thinkers - Rabbi Shaul Magid, American authors Peter Beinart and Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Indian writer Pankaj Mishra - points to the unfolding of a ...