Using The Pulter Project to Construct Meaning in “The Indian Moose (Emblem 7)” and “The Stately Moose (Emblem 27)”
“We take this material [a unique leather-bound manuscript, poems of political, personal, religious, scientific] and make something new. We invite you to continue in the...
What does it mean to be ‘an unnecessary woman’?
The aspect of Rabih Almeddine’s An Unnecessary Woman: A Novel (2014) that most powerfully strikes me is the seamless movement across time, across micro places...
What does it mean to not have a history? Alejandro Zambra’s ‘Ways of Going Home’
Names, or lack or inappropriateness thereof, are a ghostly presence in Alejandro Zambra’s characterization of the macro- and micro-level themes expertly tangled in his novel...
Art of the Sentence: Zinzi Clemmons
“I’ve often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless” (p.31). So responds Zinzi Clemmons’ narrator...
Art of the Sentence: Jenny Offill
“Once, as I lay in bed, a bright red sun appeared in the window. It bounced from side to side, then became a ball. Life...