10+ hour, 31+ min ago   (200+ words) Native American powwows are important cultural celebrations, but this one in Bermuda memorializes events often hidden in American history: the large-­scale enslavement of Indigenous people and the simultaneous taking of Native land. The ancestors of the Bermuda powwow attendees…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (133+ words) In time he will say that The Waves by Virginia Woolf has been the most important novel in his life; but at twenty he does not use the word of this or any book, and would think it pompous, embarrassing,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (166+ words) Another month of books, another month of book covers. The books of August were as lush as you might expect, though not always in the usual ways. Here are a few of my favorites from the end of summer. What’d…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1005+ words) Says a narrator in Marlon James’s freshly Booker-nominated The Disappearers, “I’ve made such a terrible mess out of being a homo.” The novel’s protagonists are all gay men in ‘80s and ‘90s Jamaica; each makes similar proclamations. “But the statement is unfair,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (237+ words) Gabe Habash, Stephen Florida Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers John L. Parker, Jr., Once a Runner Quenton Cassidy dreams of running a sub-four-minute mile. His grueling daily training regimen is shown in great detail. It’s fair to say this novel, for the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (507+ words) The Christian nationalism of that era didn’t totally disappear. In the 1990s, vestiges of the fallen New Religious Right began evolving to meet the moment. In the 1985 iteration of the course, Capps and his guests dove deep into what he called…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (319+ words) “What do you want?” she asks. And when the boy doesn’t answer, she repeats herself, almost brusquely, “What do you want?” Then he makes as if to get up, and she takes a step back. She’s still wearing the rubber gloves…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (678+ words) I medicate myself with an Asahi and a packet of sour gummy worms to avoid dwelling on this morbid thought for too long. you’re kinda cute:) The rest is history, as they say. My phone lights up with a new…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (219+ words) Laughing at death and dying would have been preposterous to me before knowing Max. What right did I have to complain about my fear of dying when his was so imminent? In an interview with writer Kaveh Akbar conducted a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (584+ words) Did smartphones kill reading? In The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch laments that “The Age of Reading is Over.” We still, she observes, encounter many words, but increasingly find them in emails, text messages, Instagram captions, and other digital fragments rather than…...