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What books haven’t been checked out from the libraries in over 30 years? This column considers this question, with the second installment discussing “Purely Academic.”
Members of the Review’s Editorial Board curate a selection of books that reflect upon the humanity at the core of longing.
What books haven’t been checked out from our libraries in over 30 years? This column considers this question, with the first installment discussing “The Beast” by Ben B. Lindsey.
Cathy Park Hong reflects on her social standing as an Asian American—and one student’s painful but all too familiar reckoning.
For Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, life lacks substance. Throughout his novels, though, he confronts his ultimate question: what is the meaning of life?
Members of the Review’s Editorial Board compile books that evoke moments of contemplation.
What Seamus Heaney’s poetry can teach us about memory, longing, and mortality through the four elements.
Over a zoom call in April, Greg Frost discusses teaching, writing advice, the benefits of MFA programs, and more.
Margaret Atwood offers insight into a dying world—and how it shouldn’t be grieved or longed after.
Gender collapses upon itself in Anne Garréta’s “Sphinx,” playing with our previous understandings of love, longing, and the body.
The Review’s Editorial Board reflects upon the role that books have had in creating visions of the future and meditations upon the past.
A conscious society should always want media that critiques society, because it allows people to be aware and remain cautious of establishments and people in power. Science fiction of the past served this purpose; I explore how the genre has shifted over the past decades, and perhaps what we’ve lost.