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Literature > Excerpts
Facebook Society. Does it Matter?
An excerpt from Roberto Simanowski's "Facebook Society: Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves," translated by Susan H. Gillespie.
The Body’s World: Writing the Body Different
An essay by Kenny Fries, excerpted from the recent collection "Alchemy of the Word: Writers Talk About Writing (2nd Edition)."
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Labor of Professional Sport
An excerpt from "Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport" by Nathan Kalman-Lamb, forthcoming from Fernwood Publishing in May.
Jewess in Wool Clothing
Susan Golomb's essay "Jewess in Wool Clothing" is excerpted from "We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America," from Beacon Press.
For The Future of the Truth: An Excerpt from Nothing Ever Dies
By Viet Thanh Nguyen (author of Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Sympathizer) for the Provocations series, in conjunction with UCI’s “The Future of Truth” conference As a …
“Translating Little Black Boxes,” an Excerpt From the November 2016 Issue of World Literature Today
An Excerpt from World Literature Today In November 2016 — for the first time in the magazine’s 90-year history — …
