The Best American Essays 2025 (Mariner) is an anthology of 21 nonfiction prose pieces written by North American writers in 2024 and selected in 2025. In a word, this selection is encouraging, in part ...

Video essays have made criticism more accessible and creative, even as the attention economy pushes them toward formula and excess.

If Dr. Siobhán Scarry’s new book were a piece of visual art, it would be described as “mixed media.” Parlor Press will ...

There is anguish and confusion that the ‘prince of the humanities’ has fallen so far ...

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... To start this project, Freece reached out to experts across the Library of Congress’s “international and national divisions, even though I ...

Vicissitude describes life's natural ups and downs, encompassing unexpected changes in circumstances, fortune, or conditions. This term, often used in the plural, highlights the constant flux in ...

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The recent opinion piece by Brigadier General Dan Frimpong (Rtd), calling for the return of History, Geography and related foundational subjects to the heart ...

Spotlight: Writers-in-Conversation featuring Mitchell S. Jackson Thursday, March 12, 6-7:30 p.m. Cascadia Art Museum, 190 ...

Vance, who made headlines for leading a verbal attack on Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House last year, wrote in his memoir about his struggles to control his anger: “Even at my ...