Who Gets to Be a Writer?
Despite welcome diversification, literary culture is also becoming more tied to elite educational institutions, and more difficult to enter.
“Create a Different Language”: Behrouz Boochani & Omid ...
“Just do something. Just do something. Just a very small thing. I’m not an ideological person, really.”
Reading Resources: The Novel
A resource for reading about, teaching, and discussing the novel as an artistic and cultural form.
Beverly Cleary Forever (1916–2021)
Working as a children’s librarian in a “one-library town,” Cleary, age 23, found bored boys asking, “Where are the books about kids like us?”
Episode 1: Novels & Ideas
How do novels provoke readers to wrestle with complex, even dangerous ideas?
Episode 2: Novels & Political Consciousness
How does reading novels affect our understanding of the power dynamics that shape our lives?
Episode 3: Novels & Intimacy
How can novels expand our understanding of sex and intimacy in the digital age?
Episode 4: Novels & Catastrophe
How do novels help us see the present in a broader historical perspective?
