There is a common misconception that comics are for children; worse, there is a misconception that comics are for uneducated people who read at a low level. This simply isn’t the case. Comics and graphic novels can tell compelling, emotional, dark, adult stories. The first graphic novel I read was in an undergraduate class at […]
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Rose Sutherland’s “A Sweet Sting of Salt:” A queer reimagining of The Selkie Wife
The Selkie Wife is a prominent story in Celtic folklore that Rose Sutherland has reimagined in the form of a queer love story. A Sweet Sting of Salt is set in a small coastal town in Nova Scotia, somewhere around the late 1800s. We follow Jean, the only midwife in Barquer’s Bay, who has built […]
Inspirational Author to Women, Ama Ata Aidoo, Dies At 81
In the realm of literature, there are those rare individuals whose words transcend time, touching the hearts and minds of readers for generations to come. Ama Ata Aidoo, a remarkable writer, poet, and playwright, was undoubtedly one of those luminaries. As we bid farewell to this extraordinary woman, let us celebrate her legacy and draw inspiration from her remarkable journey.
Classic Literature That Changed My Life
Classic literature also reveals our dark history and possibly dark present in a way that whitewashed history books do not. This can be seen in books like The Scarlett Letter, which reveals the way a women’s sexuality was seen back then, or To Kill a Mockingbird, which holds the unfortunately still-present Black men struggle with the biased nature of the law. It also plays with the meaning of morality in a way that only Oscar Wilde and Ursule Le Guin know how to do. All of this is also why so many classic books are being banned in schools.
The Book Club is the new Salon (If I have anything to say about it)
In my sophomore year of college, I took an English course with a young, fiery-tongued professor; who used the class as a…place to vent his worldly frustrations, as well as an incubator for the future. We traipsed through books that could also be journalistic variations on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. No Logo comes to mind, highlighting the plight of sweatshop and factory work.
How bell hooks Taught Me How to Love and How to be Loved
With little fanfare, bell hooks has influenced your favorite industry leaders worldwide and has been named one of TIME’s 100 Women of the Year. Like many Black women scholars before her, Bell Hooks gave so much of herself: to theories, writers aspiring to be writers, and the future she sought to create. She understood the sense of urgency in her work and wasted no opportunity to push any and every conversation forward. She has published between thirty and forty written works in her lifetime; hooks wrote feverishly while never allowing the quality of her work to falter.
Famed Spanish Novelist Javier Marías Dies at 70
Spain-based publisher Alfaguara has confirmed the death of internationally renowned Spanish novelist Javier Marías. He was 70 years old, and passed away at a hospital in Madrid Sunday due to complications from pneumonia. Javier Marías was a global literary force known for being a master at his craft. His fame rests on his 15 published novels, which have sold more than 9 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 46 languages.
Op-Ed: Why Argentine Literature is so Political?
There is very little Argentine literature that is just for fun. I can count with the fingers on one hand the instances I’ve read Argentine fiction, and it was completely devoid of political commentary.
Are “The Classics” Still Important, or Simply Outdated?
It’s likely you read at least one “classic novel” if not more during your time as a high school student. At 16 years old, it is also likely you found some if not all of them to be boring and difficult to understand. Students often read famous works like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet or The Great Gatsby. Some argue that these stories show how the English language has evolved or tell important lessons we can’t find anywhere else. However, what’s really so priceless about a 13-year-old girl being manipulated into a suicide pact with a man 4 years her senior? Or a man who is so delusional and obsessed with a woman he’s never met that he throws extravagant parties each night in hopes she will attend? More importantly, could it be found in a book that would keep the attention of students better?
4 Books in Translation That Will Transport You to Another World
Is there anything better than the feeling of immersing within the crazy adventures of complex characters in wild and remote locations?
We have compiled a shortlist of books set in faraway locations or different time eras that are in the translation process and will be released in 2022.
