New novels by Fonda Lee, Martha Wells, Nick Harkaway, Kelly Link and Emma Törzs. + Credit…Adolfo Redaño Here are five extraordinary books about families — chosen, imposed or estranged — and the astonishing array of skills required to secure or survive them. Fonda Lee’s UNTETHERED SKY (Tordotcom, 152 pp., $22.99) combines falconry and ancient Persian […]
The renowned creative writing program in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of English has a reputation for nurturing some of the top writers from diverse backgrounds, voices and interests. Faculty include widely recognized, award-winning writers, and many M.F.A. alumni have gone onto successful writing careers. Works by both faculty and alumni of the […]
I ADMIT THAT the last time I read a Spider-Man comic book was way back in the early 1970s, when superheroes did not look much like my Mexican American family and predominantly immigrant neighbors. Of course, in recent years, there’s been an explosion of new—and decidedly multiethnic—takes on the superhero canon. This has been lucrative […]
I met Emily several years ago at Columbia University, where I was teaching and she was studying in the MFA writing program. She was one of my students in a seminar on process, where students dramatically experimented with the methods, times, and circumstances of their writing, . Many students can have difficulty working outside of […]
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This letter begins on a night just before my father dies. Back when he could still walk, we might have been on the porch sharing a cigarette, confessing our last words before sleep to a congregation of stars. Instead, we’re in the living room of the ranch house in Arizona. The credits roll on yet […]
