On a hot day in 2004, Laurence Ralph, recently arrived in Chicago to attend graduate school, stood on the corner of Lawndale Avenue and Cermak Road.
May 26, 2020
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Category Archives: Literature
December 3, 2019
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Why we’re so emotionally invested in the semicolon
In new book, alum Cecelia Watson examines history of punctuation’s polarizing mark “The semicolon is a place where our anxieties and our aspirations about language, class and education are concentrated, so that in this small mark big ideas are distilled … Continue reading
October 9, 2019
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Spending the summer with ‘The Idiot’
Incoming students in the undergraduate Class of 2023 will join many Brown faculty and staff in reading Elif Batuman’s first novel, the selected text for this year’s First Readings program.
October 15, 2018
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Author Charles Johnson — with new story collection ‘Night Hawks’ out — discusses the anatomy of a short story
Charles Johnson, University of Washington professor emeritus of English and award-winning author, has released a new book of short stories, his fourth. The dozen stories in “Night Hawks,” published this month by Scribner, range from realism to light science fiction, … Continue reading
June 24, 2018
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‘Unscripted America’: Rivett explores Native American linguistic contributions to American literature
Sarah Rivett, an associate professor of English and American studies at Princeton University, specializes in early American and transatlantic literature, religion and indigenous history.
June 10, 2018
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New book ‘City Unsilenced’ explores protest and public space
Jeff Hou is a professor of landscape architecture and adjunct professor of urban design and planning in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. His research, teaching and practice focus on community design, design activism, cross-cultural learning and engaging … Continue reading
May 26, 2018
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Frymer discusses ‘Building an American Empire’
Paul Frymer, a professor of politics at Princeton University and the director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, studies democratic representation in the United States. His particular interests … Continue reading
May 13, 2018
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The photographer and the serpent handlers
How Ohio State’s Lauren Pond found redemption in the woods of West Virginia COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ask Lauren Pond to describe Pastor Mack Wolford, and “serpent handler” won’t be the first thing she mentions.