Shaw invites us to consider the power of myth to guide us not only toward new ways of seeing our current moment—one in which we’re witnessing an unprecedented global pandemic—but also new ways of seeing itself...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Miller explores the next big fight in the South China Sea when errors and miscalculations on the grandest scale drive the world’s greatest maritime powers into conflict...

In this interview we discuss the sophisticated structure and profound content of the Tiruvaymoli, along with the translator’s own transformative journey rending into English the meaning, emotion, cadence and kaleidoscopic brilliance proper to this Tamil masterpiece...

Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close...

After a decade spent protecting public officials, Nick Averose has the unique ability to think like an assassin...

Adleman’s collection, a gorgeous hybrid of poetry and memoir, is a journey through grief and forgiveness...

Mina completed a doctorate in Classics but can’t find a tenure track position. She earns money by teaching adjunct classes and tutoring in Latin...

Not only is Reed a person who feels emotions strongly, he’s actually an empath, who can manipulate other people’s emotions, preferably at their invitation, and project feelings into books...

One summer, Joni Griffith Wexler realizes that she hasn’t paid enough attention to her life...

Tyler Hayes's "The Imaginary Corpse" offers an escape from the unending stress of the Covid-19 pandemic with three simple words: plush yellow triceratops...

In these poems, the famous author of Frankenstein crafts a creature out of ink, mirrors, and the remnants of her own heartbreak and sorrow...

Like the better-known and perhaps luckier Georgia O’Keeffe, the American painter Agnes Pelton also found her unique vision in the western desert...

Janene, Cora, and Amadahy live on the banks of the river in a small North Carolina town, but they live centuries apart...

In the place of dispensable banalities—"Hold on," "You will feel better," and so on—Scialabba offers an account of how it's been for him, in the hope that doing so might prove helpful to others.

The Jātaka tales, or stories of the Buddha’s previous lives as a bodhisatta, are included in the Pāli Canon and have for centuries been a rich source of inspiration in Theravada Buddhism...

Ten men have already died while searching the jungles of Uruguay for a reclusive writer,..

Kaminski tells the story of Ethan Crowe, a Lakota Sioux tracker who spent a career with the Delta Forces and the Defense Intelligence Agency...

Ken Liu’s second collection of speculative stories explores migration, memory, and a post-human future through the eyes of parents and their children...

I spoke to Stephen at a moment when our most imminent trouble seems to be the global pandemic of the coronavirus, one that—on the date of our interview, March 18, 2020—appears as though it will only grow worse and more deadly here in North America and around the globe...

A former military interrogator and military intelligence specialist, Rosone’s experience is evident in every page of the book...

Ricardo de Avila would have followed Coronado to the ends of the earth. Instead, Ricardo found the end of his mortal life, and a new one, as a renegade vampire...

As Maya Rodale notes early in this interview, romance novels tend not to get the same respect as other categories of fiction, historical or otherwise...

In "Docile," the debut novel by K. M. Szpara, people pay off family debts by working as indentured personal assistants to the ultra-wealthy....

Grass’s aim is nothing less than to demythologize the American Midwest.