Coming of Age During the Cuban Revolution
Anna Veltfort on turning memories of living in Castro’s Havana into art
Tag: Literature
Why Study Literature?
Reading expands our social imaginations and literary criticism can tell us why.
Decolonizing Culture
What a leftist Moroccan journal from the 60s can teach us about today’s cultural crises.
What Makes the Business of Writing So Interesting
Using fiction to realize a new mental architecture.
Portraits of the Artists
Michael Krasny offers his impressions of 7 influential contemporary American writers. Forum host and professor of English, Michael Krasny “I was mad for literature,” writes Michael Krasny, host of NPR’s award-winning radio program, Forum. These words form the opening line of his memoir—a memoir that …
Books As “Revolutionist” Incubators
On Jack London, banned books, and political agitation. Jack London in 1903, public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. During his short career, Jack London achieved larger-than-life stature in American literature, and in the course of that short career he, like so many other writers of …
