American Born Chinese language is a coming-of-age story with nice non secular perception in graphic novel format. American Born Chinese language by Gene Luen Yang. FirstSecond, 2021 (reprint). 240 pages. Studying Stage: Teenagers, ages 12 and up Beneficial for: 14 and up Who Am I? The Teen Years Determining self is maybe the focus of […]

This previous October, subscribers to Lady of Letters, the Substack publication of the author Naomi Kanakia, acquired an e-mail titled “Why I’m publishing a novella on Substack.” This novella, Kanakia wrote, was fifteen thousand phrases lengthy. She was pleased with it, and hoped that it’d sometime be the centerpiece of a e book of tales […]

Expensive College students, Once more, my sincerest apologies for providing Classics and Up to date American Tradition this semester. After I pitched this class to the English division chair, I believed Harris would win and we’d spend the semester making fascinating literary connections to her sober coverage selections. I didn’t foresee that the canon itself […]

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It was a muggy, overcast afternoon in June 2010 when Ann Foley’s life unraveled. The day had received off to a pleasing sufficient begin; Ann and her husband, Don, took their two sons, Tim and Alex, for a celebratory lunch at an Indian restaurant not removed from the household house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was […]

For all of its small miracles—large laughs and greater gasps, good performances by Joan Chen and Izaac Wang, sharp dialogue that evokes virtually too effectively the brash posturing of ’00s suburban adolescence—Sean Wang’s 2024 coming-of-age comedy-drama Dìdi left me with the sensation that I had seen this one earlier than. The strong-willed little one, the […]

Sundown over Lake Altus-Lugert / Photograph by Logan / Adobe Inventory Home Life Home lifeis the quickest approach to kill a poet’s insanity and the quickest approach to kill the poet. I learn Claudia my poem about Roberto Bolaño. Claudia seems at me and after a beatshe asks, “Hungry? The salmon filletsare nonetheless within the fridge.”From the deserts […]