In “The Barn,” Wright Thompson Excavates the Cover Up of Emmett Till’s Murder
Even though Wright Thompson grew up in the Mississippi Delta, he was in college before he learned about Emmett Till, the 14-year-old child from Chicago who was tortured and murdered in the Mississippi...
View ArticleEverything I Know About the Dead, I Learned From “Beetlejuice”
Stereo Instructions by M.D. McIntyre Everything I know about the dead I learned from Beetlejuice. I didn’t see Beetlejuice in theaters when it was released in 1988, but it became a favorite a few...
View Article7 Dark Tales Haunted by Music
We hear an old song—the soundtrack to a first kiss, a piece from a funeral—and the past is suddenly alive again, as vivid as a spectre at the foot of our bed. It’s not surprising that we describe...
View ArticleThe Best Books of the Fall, According to Indie Booksellers
Fall is the biggest season for literature, the most anticipated titles are released in September and awards season commences in November. To sort through this glorious deluge, we asked our trusted...
View Article7 Books About the History of Voting in America
Rutherford B. Hayes is one of those presidents that can be hard to identify. Sure, most people know the name and perhaps know he falls somewhere on that foggy list between the more well-known Abraham...
View ArticleMosab Abu Toha’s Poetry Is a Heart-wrenching Account of Everyday Life in...
Mosab Abu Toha’s second poetry collection, Forest of Noise, is a heart-wrenching account of life in Gaza, under the tightening grip of the Israeli Occupation. Abu Toha morphs his stories in verse,...
View ArticleHer Corpse Is a Wild Animal
Her Corpse Is a Wild Animal Djuna Barnes Share article No Man’s Mare by Djuna Barnes Pauvla Agrippa had died that afternoon at three; now she lay with quiet hands crossed a little below her fine...
View ArticleThe Best Books About Horses For Adults
It’s no coincidence that there are horses on the walls of caves in Lascaux, atop St. Mark’s in Venice, under the derriere of Marcus Aurelius in Rome, and alongside the Terracotta Army in China. Since...
View Article8 Urgent Poetry Collections About Puerto Rican Resistance
For Puerto Rican protest poets, one of the most important ways to appreciate and show love for Puerto Rico has been to write poems that underscore pride in their Puerto Rican cultural identity and...
View ArticleJenna Tang on Translating a Seminal Novel That Defined Taiwan’s #MeToo Movement
Fang Si Chi’s First Love Paradise is a seminal novel that helped kick off the #MeToo movement in Taiwan and has sold millions of copies worldwide. But only two months after the novel’s publication,...
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