“The Mighty Red” (out Oct. 1 from Harper) invites readers into a small sugar beet farming town reeling from the 2008 economic crisis and the repercussions of environmental destruction. In this new novel, author Louise Erdrich introduces a memorable ensemble of characters led by adolescents in turmoil. A teenage love triangle anchors this immersive book: […]
“The Mighty Red” (out Oct. 1 from Harper) invites readers into a small sugar beet farming town reeling from the 2008 economic crisis and the repercussions of environmental destruction. In this new novel, author Louise Erdrich introduces a memorable ensemble of characters led by adolescents in turmoil. A teenage love triangle anchors this immersive book: […]
Author Louise Erdrich. (Jenn Ackerman) “The Mighty Red” (out Oct. 1 from Harper) invites readers into a small sugar beet farming town reeling from the 2008 economic crisis and the repercussions of environmental destruction. In this new novel, author Louise Erdrich introduces a memorable ensemble of characters led by adolescents in turmoil. A teenage love […]
I think everyone is on the same page—which is to say, angry. The internet is angry, my friends are angry, and I am angry, and here’s why (though if you are reading this website, you probably already know this news): Emerald Fennell, the writer-director of Promising Young Woman and Saltburn , is adapting Emily Brontë’s […]
Associate professor Chris Holmes was selected to be a contributing writer of the Playbill for “Never Let Me Go,” a play that premiered in London on Sept. 25 Chris Holmes, associate professor and Chair of Literatures in the Department of English, has been a superfan of Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro for nearly 15 years. […]
From Ernst Lehner’s Symbols, Signs and Signets. For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Sara Gilmore’s poems “ Mad as only an angel can be ” and “ Knowing constraint ” appear in the new Fall issue of the Review, no. 249 . […]
Sarah Leavitt is the author of the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (Skyhorse Publishing, 2012), which is currently in production as a feature-length animation, and the award-winning historical fiction comic Agnes, Murderess (Freehand Books, 2019). She is an assistant professor in the School of Creative Writing at UBC in […]
Nonprofit Kitchen Table Literary Arts celebrates a decade of promoting the prose and poetry of Black women and women of color and helping them blossom and flourish as writers. Photos by Kiran Malik-Khan “We Write Here.” It’s an apt tagline for Kitchen Table Literary Arts (KT), a nonprofit organization located in the Kress Contemporary – […]
During the overcast summer of 1879, in the riverside village of Vétheuil halfway between Paris and Rouen, a restless painter paced his garden, waiting for an hour’s sunshine. When the cloud lifted, he slipped through his gate bordering the Seine, made rapid sketches of the water and the reflections of its grassy islets, and returned […]
In a public relations release credited to the “Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences staff,” we are told that “Stanford Creative Writing revitalizes its vision amid growing demand.” The following text contains a level of spin and obfuscation that would make the most hardened political operative blush. I have ceased to be surprised by shortsighted, […]
