Revisiting Malcolm Lowry’s ‘Under the Volcano’ on the Day of the Dead
The ultimate tragedy of Under the Volcano is that of humanity’s wasted potential. Can, Lowry pondered, the psyche repair itself?
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What to Do After Decades of Teaching ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Wrong?
We’re tasked with teaching a book that doesn’t live up to its longstanding responsibility of delivering a recokining with American racism.
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Why “Self-Promotion” Is Bullshit
Promote your book. Share what you’re comfortable sharing with potential readers, but please, let’s abolish that terribly ill-fitting word: self-promotion.
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We Learn to Live: Featured Poetry by Andrés Cerpa
Cerpa’s poems are distilled charges of pure will. A necessarily bleak book illuminated by authentic and audacious feeling.
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How to Buy a Used Car During a Wildfire
I do not laugh but the children do. “I hate these fucking places,” I think again, turning the radio back on.
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France as Told by Two
They mean to prepare the reader for what comes next, the story of the particular way in which time flowed over or through France these past 70 years.
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Binding the Ghost: On the Physicality of Literature
The spirit is strong, but so is the flesh; books can never be separated from the circumstances of those bodies that house their souls.
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