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Distraction and Attention

Four writers respond to Caleb Smith's Thoreau's Axe

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The Waste Land at 100

Selections from the archives

Dictee at Forty

The life and legacy of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Resisting Category

New Spanish-language fiction in translation

Pandemic Files

Life under quarantine
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.

Black Hauntology

The ghosts that endure

Ownership

The complexities of property

A New Direction in American Poetry

Where lyric meets narrative
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The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
September 1, 2022
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The Weight of Memory

Honoring my dear friend
Yong Soon Min
September 1, 2022
Poetry

& WHEN THEY COME FOR ME (REPRISE)

Golden
July 11, 2022
Essays

Akron State of Mind

Did I betray my friends by moving to the suburbs?
William Evans
July 11, 2022
Poetry

Ars Diaspora with Drinking Gourd

Omotara James
July 11, 2022
Folio

Black Hauntology: An Introduction

The ghosts that endure
Phillip B. Williams
July 11, 2022
Conversations

Raising the Dead

Three writers on engaging and honoring their ghosts
Aricka Foreman,
Krista Franklin,
and
avery r. young
July 11, 2022
Essays

The Ghost of Henry Dumas

Since his mysterious death, the poet's spirit has haunted my family
Treasure Shields Redmond
July 11, 2022
The Moment

The Physician as Patient

Medicine after COVID-19
Laura Kolbe
June 1, 2022
Pandemic Files

From "You Were Never Lovelier"

Ryan Black
March 14, 2022