Nathan Scott McNamara talks with Pola Oloixarac on the beauty of switching languages and her latest novel "Mona."
Time to Say Goodbye for the Summer
Greg Gerke looks nostalgically at Tin Men, Fine Young Cannibals, and the summer of 1987 as he remembers his father.
Gen Z Cannot Live with Work, Nor Without It
George Alliger analyzes the rising anti-work sentiment among younger generations.
Turning Contemporary Fiction into Cocktails
Lindsay Merbaum finds a unique way to transform narrative into beverage.
The Korean Literary Crime Wave: Kim Young-ha’s Diary of a Murderer and Seo Mi-ae’s The Only Child
For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall looks at two more works joining the ranks of Korea's crime novel corpus.
The Ableist Blockbuster
As Disability Pride Month draws to a close, Mark Ozdoba reflects on the pervasiveness of ableism in the contemporary film industry.
Shame, Class and Sexuality in Contemporary France: Édouard Louis’ Socio-Political Autofiction
Esmé O'Keeffe synthesizes the themes in Édouard Louis' early works.
The Art of Temporal Resistance
Karla Kelsey inspects the interrelation of ecology and time in Cole Swensen's "Art in Time."
Water Thirsting for Itself: Joanna Chen in Conversation with Natalya Sukhonos
Joanna Chen talks with Natalya Sukhonos about memory and noise in her latest poetry collection "A Stranger Home."
Of Kierkegaard and Climate Change
Rachel Howard recounts a harrowing experience brought on by the worsening climate crisis.