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A slender novel of epic power, Orbital (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) deftly snapshots one day in th
As per William Shakespeare, ‘all the world’s a stage’. But what if the human soul was a stage too? W
Derek Askey is an associate editor on staff at The Sun magazine, located in Chapel Hill, North Carol
Richard Hoffman is the creative nonfiction editor at Solstice and is the author of seven books, incl
How do fiction and research intersect? In The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition (Wilfrid Laurier Uni
William Meiners is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. He created Spor
Dayna Tororici is the co-editor of n + 1 magazine, located in New York City. She’s been on staff for
Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic (LSU Press, 2023) by Dr. Cassander L. Smith exami
John Gower’s "Confessio Amantis" ("The Lover’s Confession") is one of the most important English wor
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are probably history’s most famous folklorists. Their collection of folk tal
The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an "epistola
The Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts o
In Reckoning with Restorative Justice Hawaii Women's Prison Writing (Duke University Press, 2023), D
Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-tem
Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius
In his new book Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery (University of V
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Dutton, 2023)
For nearly 200 years, people have questioned the identity of Shakespeare; however, this debate is of
Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts f
Patrick R. O'Malley's book The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlanti
