The Atlantic
Culture & Critics - “How Did I End Up Like This?”
Seamus Heaney’s journey into darkness
6 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Essay – “No Novel About Any Black Woman Could Ever Be the Same After This”
That’s how Toni Morrison described Gayl Jones’s first book in 1975. Jones has published to great acclaim and experienced unspeakable tragedy. Now she is releasing her first novel in more than 20 years.
10+ min |
September 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
Writing in Spanish Elevates Academia
An estimated fifty-three million Spanish speakers live in the United States.
5 min |
September - October 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
Hashtag Highlights Anti-Black Bias
The month of June brought the continuation of daily protests around the United States, and the world, in recognition of violence against Black people and the importance of Black lives.
4 min |
September - October 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
Nate Marshall – Transformation
In his second collection, Finna, Nate Marshall explores the failures and triumphs of language, the power of community, and abolition as a poetic praxis.
10+ min |
September - October 2020
The Atlantic
What to Do About William Faulkner
A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.
10 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
David Coppereld 's Wild Ride
Armando Iannucci’s mad, loving, and brilliant adaptation of Dickens’s novel
6 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Looking For Frederick Douglass
How a visit to his birthplace helped me understand this moment in America
10+ min |
September 2020
Archaeology
Anubian Kingdom Rises
Excavations at a city on the Nile reveal the origins of an ancient African power
10+ min |
September/October 2020
The Oldie Magazine
What a Dame!
The late Vera Lynn – Oldie of the Year in 2018 and a great friend to the magazine – wrote her last piece for us in May, aged 103
4 min |
August 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Profitable Wonders: Batting for bats
Besides elegantly wielding his bat at the crease, former England Captain David Gower is a long-standing admirer of the other, flying version.
3 min |
August 2020
The Oldie Magazine
Christopher Robin did adore his bear
He told me he loved Winnie-the-Pooh – and his father, AA Milne
4 min |
August 2020
New York magazine
A Plague is an Apocalypse But It Can Bring a New World
The meaning of this one is in our hands.
10+ min |
July 20 - August 02, 2020
Russian Life
Under Review
BOOKS FOR THE GREAT PAUSE
4 min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
The Romance of the Earth
Half a century ago, the profession of geologist was both popular and revered in Russia, shrouded in a halo of romance and adventure. Indeed, it was not unusual for the lives of these explorers of subterranean mysteries to be immortalized in motion pictures, or for songs to be written about them.
7 min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
The Thimble
Pashka Bystrov, known around the village as Speedy, was leaning back against the warm stove and despondently watching his wife, Galka. Her hair still in curlers, she was tossing her dresses, skirts, and fleece tights into a suitcase, wadding up her feather-light stockings, and yelling at him that she was sick up to here, and then some, with village life, and she wanted to hear her heels tapping on asphalt and get a proper salon perm.
8 min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
“Painting Jesus Isn't Dangerous”
Orthodox Street Art in Contemporary Russia
10+ min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
Journeys through the Russian Empire
WILLIAM CRAFT BRUMFIELD Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky traveled throughout Russia prior to the Revolution, photographing churches and mosques, railways and monasteries, towns and remote natural landscapes. His images are now archived at the Library of Congress. William Brumfield has recreated Prokudin-Gorsky’s journeys and photographed those same sites today and the photos are laid out side by side int his new book – a testament to two brilliant photographers whose work prompts and illuminates, monument by monument, questions of conservation, restoration, and cultural identity and memory.
6 min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
Owls of the Eastern Ice
A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
5 min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
Arctic Wake-up Call
Oil spill highlights Russia's deteriorating infrastructure
3 min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
An expat Goes Home
At dawn one day in late November, I was awakened by a call. It was my niece, sobbing: “Uncle Vic… Papa died.”
10+ min |
July/August 2020
Russian Life
A Cold Soup to Beet Summer
I was a picky eater in my childhood, and cooked vegetables were especially taboo for me, precluding any enjoyment of my mother’s scrumptious borshch, vegetable ragout, and the like. It must have been a small miracle for her, then, that I did eat her cold svekolnik (свекольник) soup. Perhaps I was seduced by its brilliant red color, or by the floating halves of a hard-boiled egg, or the fact that it was refreshingly cold on a hot summer day.
3 min |
July/August 2020
The Atlantic
Kevin Kwan – The Shakespeare of Status Anxiety
Kevin Kwan, the author of Crazy Rich Asians, celebrates and skewers the social codes of the wealthy and powerful.
10 min |
July - August 2020
Archaeology
A Sylk Road Renaissance
Excavations in Tajikistan have unveiled a city of merchant princes that flourished from the fifth to the eighth century A.D.
10+ min |
July/August 2020
Reader's Digest US
The Arrow That Saved My Life—Twice
After a freak backyard accident almost kills her, a Texas woman is taken on a miraculous medical journey
6 min |
July - August 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
First Fiction 2020
In our twentieth annual roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction, Lauren Groff, Bryan Washington, Paul Lisicky, Sue Monk Kidd, and Sarah Gailey introduce first books by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Corinne Manning, Megha Majumdar, and John Fram.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
A Poetics Of Resilience
In her new book, Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner Natasha Trethewy contends with persistent trauma, both personal and cultural, going beyond witnessing to seek truth in all its complexity.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
What We Found in Writing
ON THE evening Denver went into lockdown, I was fishing. The South Platte runs right through the city, and if you’re into urban fly-fishing, you can cast for huge carp among the wrecked grocery carts and old tires.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
Save Indie Bookstores
Writers tend to have their favorite local book-stores. The one where the staff members are mostly poets.
4 min |
July - August 2020
New York magazine
“I Said to My Mother, ‘Did You See the Blood?' She Said, ‘I Hoped You Hadn't Noticed.'”
Marga Griesbach was sent to Stutthof concentration camp in 1944. This past February, she left Washington State to take a cruise around the world.
10+ min |