Ayad Akhtar : Homeland Elegies

When Cynthia Cruz describes Joan Naviyuk Kane’s latest collection as a series of poems that “both shows and enacts how a self is brought to being through the abyss,” I think of Kane’s own words about poetry: as “a place of refuge and possibility, a generative space. Not a space o ...  Show more

Today’s episode is a classic from the archives, a conversation from 2019 with Brandon Shimoda about his book The Grave on the Wall. While the book centers on an exploration of Shimoda’s grandfather’s internment at Fort Missoula during World War II, it is really an interrogation o ...  Show more

Jack Kerouac but make it a girl with braids. Carrie Bradshaw, but without the sex, and also braids. An American Icon. An American Odyssey. American propaganda. Violently so, in some cases. Laura Ingalls Wilder is evergreen. For better or worse. Since the first Little House book w ...  Show more

Stories of two American photographers. A few years ago, Alyse Emdur found a Polaroid of her family posed in front of a painted beach scene in the visiting room of the prison where her brother was an inmate. 'I was startled by something about it. This painting behind us represente ...  Show more

In his latest work, “The Last White Man,” the award-winning writer Mohsin Hamid imagines a world that is very like our own, with one major exception: On various da ...

يكتب الشّعراء القصائد للخلفاء طمعاً بمكانة عالية ومكاسب ماديّة، وهذا ما عهِدناه من أمر الشّعراء، أمّا أن يسلّط الشّاعر لسانه على الخلفاء شتماً وهجاءً! فهذه ظاهرة نادرة في الشّعر العربيّ.
اتّجه إلى كلّ مَن عاصرهم من خلفاء عصره، فجعلهم مادّة دسمة لشِعره الهجائيّ، مُسجّلاً بذ ...