literature

The Poverty of Jeff Bezos

• Maria Bustillos

a close reading of his exit letter to Amazon employees

Published on Feb 16, 2021 9:00AM EST

I Became a Literary Arts Activist in Ilorin

• Mariam Adetona

A watering hole of sorts, that was all I wanted.

Published on Feb 10, 2021 8:00AM EST

The Shape of a Story

• Issy Manley

... or so I've been told

Published on Nov 17, 2020 6:00AM EST

Abroad: the distance between Calcutta and California

• Alif Shahed

A poet's refusal to "translate"

Published on Sep 16, 2020 9:00AM EDT

Palimpsest

• Idza Luhumyo

But there he is again, a few pages later, with his tiny cursive handwriting.

Published on Aug 26, 2019 12:00PM EDT

Jack Pendarvis’s Moby-Dick

• Jack Pendarvis

He… uh… turns her into what is inevitably called “nut-brown” from the sun, and all her problems also vanish.

Published on May 1, 2019 6:00PM EDT

By the roots

• Maria Bustillos

Shaw did more than expose the hypocrisies at the heart of conservative Victorian morality.

Published on Apr 28, 2019 12:00PM EDT

Jack Pendarvis’s Moby-Dick

• Jack Pendarvis

Do you think he’s rude because he uses his harpoon to reach across the table and stab a beefsteak?

Published on Apr 18, 2019 10:00AM EDT

Jack Pendarvis’s Moby-Dick

• Jack Pendarvis

“Here I am in my raggedy hat and my… boots with the holes in it, and I can’t afford a frickin’… hamburger!"

Published on Apr 3, 2019 4:00PM EDT