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Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility
Som-Mai Nguyen
“Blunt force ethnic credibility” discusses Vietnamese-American literature to describe the contradictions and challenges of representing cultures “authentically.”
The Booker Prize
For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have celebrated the world’s most outstanding fiction, whether written in or translated into English.
Move Over Screens, Make Room For Zines
Commentary on and discussion of Zines: handmade, self-published magazines that are about almost anything, from politics to music, arts and raw personal experience.
Ann Wierda Rowland, “Reading the Readers: Books Clubs of the Past”
In this podcast, Ann Wierda Rowland discusses her current research into the works of John Keats through the lens of reflecting on shared reading practices, past and present.
“Moving forward with the knowledge of the past:” A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Beloved, and the teaching of African-American literature.
Here, A Name We Call Ourselves: Tsitsi Ella Jaji reads from her book, “Mother Tongues: Poems”
Zimbabwean poet and scholar Tsitsi Ella Jaji will discuss and read selections from “Mother Tongues: Poems,” her award-winning second book of verse.
What We’re Reading
Staff picks
What Are You Reading?
Recommendations from the community
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