There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters
Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House.
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Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House.
In honor of National Talk Like Shakespeare Day, Frank Bergon writes about Shakespeare’s possible use of the Basque language.
In the first of a series, Osagie K. Obasogie explores the history and persistence of eugenics in science, medicine, and elsewhere.
Are people—and the United States—doomed to be the subalterns of the aristocrats?
Maria Bose and Jason Willwerscheid analyze corporate moves to adapt prestige video games into prestige TV.
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Theo Spielberg appreciates Fatima Al Qadiri’s haunting score for the 2019 Senegalese film “Atlantics.”
Devin Griffiths reads Frank Herbert’s “Dune” as a novel of environmental protest.
On this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman talk about the ethics and politics of memoir in the wake of several recent...
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Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House.
Jimmy So analyzes what “Oppenheimer” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” have to say about America.
Chris Molnar considers what it's like to be a writer today.