📚 The Two Noble Kinsmen, by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare (CALLAHAN / OLENA YAKOBCHUK / JACOB LUND / SHUTTERSTOCK / KATIE MARTIN / THE ATLANTIC)...
Emily Dickinson wrote a letter to a stranger in 1870 in which she asked the recipient, the writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to read a few of...
📚 “Our Composite Nationality,” by Frederick Douglass 📚 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass 📚 “Lessons of the Hour,”...
📚Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone, by Madison Smartt Bell 📚The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction, by Robert Stone, edited by Madison Smartt...
📚 The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison 📚 Surviving the White Gaze, by Rebecca Carroll How art can double as historical corrective “The young women [Saidiya...
📚 The Death of Jesus, by J. M. Coetzee Rewriting the “boy genius” “Caitlin Horrocks’s debut novel, The Vexations, a fictional dive into the early life...
📚 “The Conspiracy Museum,” by Robin Sloan Science fiction’s preoccupation with privacy “Dark Constellations is a slim allegory written with a chat forum’s acrid wit, while...
❖ Tarka the Otter, by Henry Williamson: “Williamson’s animals are not people, they are not symbols, and they do not speak. They are life itself.” 📚...