Key points Expressive writing can help students process emotions and foster personal growth. Expressive writing can also help to increase students’ comfort in exploring and expressing emotion. Incorporating expressive writing in the curriculum positions emotional health as integral to learning. Late at night, a student sits at her desk while the soft glow of a […]
Calligraphy has evolved by losing the ligatures between letters and has adopted forms more similar to printed correspondence. Elva Etienne (Getty Images) In Valencia, in the mid-20th century, a young bank employee and professor of business administration named Ramón Rubio founded a small academy aimed primarily at training candidates who aspired to become accountants in […]
Crystal King is the author of The Chef’s Secret and Feast of Sorrow , which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and was a Must Read for the MassBook Awards. She is an author, culinary enthusiast, and marketing expert, and has taught at multiple universities including Harvard Extension and Boston University. […]
In the late 1980s, my friends and I knew something called Dungeons & Dragons existed—and we knew that it was for us. But no shop in our little upstate New York hometown carried the books, and the World Wide Web was still a few years off. We did have a set of the dice, so […]
“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 . […]
