The Clara Luper Teachers’ Institute cohort stands together beneath the portrait of civil rights pioneer Clara Luper, committed to teaching Oklahoma’s civil rights history and the legacy of the…
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January 13, 2026Kristi Williams works with a student at Black History Saturdays, the free monthly program she founded in Tulsa to teach Black history that Oklahoma public schools cannot. The intergenerational… -
December 2, 2025Jonas Elbousty Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003) is considered among the most ambiguous twentieth-century authors in the Arab world due to his bold depictions of Tangier’s underbelly and its worl… -
November 20, 2025Jeffrey Round is an award-winning Toronto author, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker. His books include the seven-volume Lambda-winning Dan Sharp mysteries, the Bradford Fairfax comic mysteries, th… -
October 15, 2025Megha Sood is an award-winning Asian American author, poet, editor, curator, and literary activist from New Jersey. She is the author of four poetry collections and has co-edited award-winning antholo… -
September 25, 2025Photo by Sam Plott Teo’s Durumi (Zando, 2025), the latest book in Elaine U. Cho’s adventure-filled Alliance series, follows a tightknit crew as they battle for justice in the solar… -
September 18, 2025Patricio Ferrari and Nikola Madžirov. Photo by Peng Yu. On April 17, 2025, I spoke with poet Nikola Madžirov at the New York Public Library’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, following… -
September 17, 2025I met Mahreen Sohail eight years ago when we shared a Tudor-style cottage at Yaddo, the artist residency in Saratoga Springs. When I asked her to send me some of her work, she linked to her short… -
September 10, 2025Venita Blackburn is a faculty member in the creative writing program at California State University, Fresno, and the founder and president of the Live, Write workshop, an organization devoted to… -
September 2, 2025Mel Pennant / Photo by Gemma Day Mel Pennant, known primarily as a playwright and screenwriter, published her debut novel, A Murder for Miss Hortense (Pantheon) in June 2025,… -
August 20, 2025Eleanor Wilner / Photo by J. J. Tiziou / Academy of American Poets Eleanor Wilner is a much-recognized member of the American literary community, long active in the practice of poetry–… -
August 14, 2025Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a translator of Polish into English and the 2018 winner of the Transatlantyk Award for the most outstanding promoter of Polish literature abroad. She is widely known as a transl… -
August 5, 2025Alejandro Puyana didn’t anticipate his debut novel, Freedom Is a Feast (Little Brown, 2024), coinciding with daily headlines about deportations of Venezuelans from the US. Yet he is intimatel… -
July 31, 2025Shelly Sanders is a Canadian novelist who writes historical fiction set in Old Shanghai and the former Soviet Union. Her main characters are Jewish and ultimately have to flee their homes in the hope… -
July 17, 2025Julie Masis is the editor and publisher of the Russian Boston Gazette, a newspaper for Russian-speaking immigrants in Boston. She is also a freelance journalist who has written extensive… -
July 15, 2025Photo by Joe Abriatis Claire Jia’s debut novel, Wanting, was published by Tin House on July 1. It tells the story of a rejuvenated friendship between two young women, Lian and… -
June 20, 2025Karen Fang is professor of English at the University of Houston and author of the new book Background Artist: The Life and World of Tyrus Wong (Rutgers University Press, 2025), which is… -
June 3, 2025Photo of Kristen Arnett by Maria Rada I encountered Kristen Arnett’s work soon after the publication of her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, when I picked it up in a bookstore… -
May 19, 2025Photo of Roohi Choudhry by Shiva Muthiah Roohi Choudhry’s debut novel, Outside Women, braids the stories of two women: Hajra, a Pakistani scholar in the US in the late 1990s a… -
April 25, 2025Photo by Demianastur / Adobe Stock The excess of capitalism is the backdrop in Rosalie Moffett’s Making a Living (Milkweed, 2025), and at the foreground: motherhood, debt… -
March 20, 2025Illustrations by Cuauhtémoc Wetzka / Courtesy of Restless Books Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems (Restless Books, 2025), by Ilan Stavans, is a collection of… -
February 19, 2025Mariana Sabino’s debut short-story collection, The Verdigris Stories, transports readers to many different countries. This collection of loosely linked stories features characters searching for a… -
February 17, 2025Since the moment we became readers, we have always thought that to interpret the most profound ideas of a literary work—from the multiple creations of scientific theories to the perpetual scenarios of… -
January 23, 2025Mario Meléndez / Photo by Marco Ugarte Regarded as one of the most original voices of the new Latin American poetry, Mario Meléndez (b. 1971) is a Chilean poet born in Linares. Among… -
January 7, 2025Shalama and Paul, Shanghai, 1950. Photo courtesy of Jean Hoffmann Lewanda I met the author Jean Hoffmann Lewanda for lunch this past November in New Jersey, not too far from her home…
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