Kwame Dawes courtesy of Blue Flower Arts “It’s evident,” writes Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto, “that the mix of Kwame Dawes’s bicontinental heritage and love for his father and household has bestowed an elegiac temperament upon his work.” The next essay meditates on the son’s elegiac negotiations going down in Dawes’s work.   I: Dying and Worry Kwame Dawes […]

“[T]he College of North Texas administration just lately censored the content material of greater than 2 hundred tutorial programs, together with by mandating the removing of phrases equivalent to race, gender, class, and fairness from undergraduate and graduate course titles and descriptions. These actions had been allegedly taken in response to state laws banning sure […]

Images courtesy of Lisa Carver. My cousin Lorrie invited me on a ten-day retreat in Peru the place we’d partake in historical ceremonies involving the Dwelling Dying Drug ayahuasca and— “Don’t inform me something extra,” I interrupted. “The reply is sure!” I by no means watch the trailer earlier than going to the film. I […]

Poetry shouldn’t be the primary place many individuals flip to when discussing characters and character improvement. Most readers in all probability consider fiction and perhaps artistic nonfiction, however poetry? In all probability not. Nonetheless, most of the oldest items of written literature have been truly epic poems, together with the Epic of Gilgamesh and the […]

Most not too long ago, the discharge of the brand new NAEP (Nationwide Evaluation of Instructional Progress–typically regarded as the Nation’s Report Card) scores reveals that our nation’s 4th and eighth graders’ studying and math scores stay dismal and haven’t risen because the previous administration in 2022. The aftermath of the pandemic is actual and […]

Il prestigioso Worldwide Booker Prize ha annunciato la longlist del 2025, presentando tredici titoli che attraversano una molteplicità di esperienze umane e generi letterari. Secondo Max Porter, presidente della giuria, questa selezione mira a coinvolgere e ispirare una comunità globale di lettori, sfatando l’thought che la narrativa tradotta sia un ambito elitario. Al contrario, i […]

Of the ending, we have been by no means sure however at all times dared to imagine the perfect, that the years would see our eventual passing however our residence, the robust middle of our lives, would stay lengthy into the long run. However we have been improper. When final I heard, the block the […]

This content material accommodates affiliate hyperlinks. While you purchase by these hyperlinks, we could earn an affiliate fee. Welcome to Immediately in Books, our each day round-up of literary headlines on the intersection of politics, tradition, media, and extra. The 2025 Worldwide Booker Prizes Nominations Introduced That is essentially the most prestigious prize for literature […]

A letter from Alexander Deriev, husband of the late poet Regina Derieva. The Russian couple have a helluva again story. I wrote about her in “Writ on Water,” an 2014 essay for the Instances Literary Complement right here. And I’ve written about her on the E book Haven right here and right here and right […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1964, Grace Metalious, writer of the novel Peyton Place, dies.  “The nation’s founding doc is nothing if not an try to persuade the world of a doubtful conspiracy concept.” Andrea Lawler traces an American historical past of conspiracy. | Lit Hub Historical past Allison Epstein […]