The Twisted Art of Documentary
Read an essay from Ian Buruma's Theater of Cruelty, winner of the 2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. More
You and Your Partner…
You tell your neighbor that your friend, whom he has met, is babysitting. He says, no, it’s not him. He’s met your friend and this isn’t that nice young… More
Dis-Enchanted, Dis-Entangled Tales: Francophone African Literature Today—The Examples of Boubacar Boris Diop and Véronique Tadjo
Engaged with renewing the politics of form, Boubacar Boris Diop and Véronique Tadjo become representative of a new generation of African writers, Francophones and Anglophones, rethinking the artistic practice… More
A Prayer for Rockers
Rock music inspires achievement, struggle, action. It thunders in the stadium—We will rock you!—and sends us out on the field cheering, ready to play the Super Bowl. A better… More
Prayer Before Dying
Let the oceans be still or roar, as they always have. Please let the world go on as it always has, so that my children will know that only… More
Hook: A Memoir through Letters
How do we touch the average person who doesn’t care to read books because they are too busy trying to work and survive? How can short stories address serious… More
Six-Word Memoirs
“Six-Word Memoirs” are short life stories, a personal twist on the form that, according to literary lore, Hemingway started when challenged in a bar to write a… More
Professional Ethics and the Denial of Armenian Genocide
This article examines Turkish efforts to deny the Armenian Genocide of 1915–17, explores why intellectuals might engage in the denial of known genocides, and reflects on the relationship between… More
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