In many ways, for me, the political and sociolinguistic risks of putting ASL on the walls of an art museum feel tempered by the power of the ekphrastic conceit.

A former student of Nikki Giovanni's recalls the fateful day when the poet and activist convinced him he was an artist. Then ...

I undertook, voluntarily and for pay (as David Foster Wallace once put it), to read as many Irish literary journals as I ...

In Literature Against Fundamentalism, his latest nonfiction work, Tabish Khair boldly makes the case that literature is the ...

What does the landscape and climate for creative writing and freedom of expression look like in five different African countries today? What are some of the issues that affect writers?

If Movement Was A Language, Svetlana Sterlin’s debut collection of poetry out through Vagabond Press in Australia, is a work ...

In our 1959 summer and autumn issue, Jonas Mekas, the then editor of the American magazine Film Culture, reports from the inside, as it were, on new trends in the non-Hollywood American cinema.

Truly inspired Greek mythology books and retellings It’s nearly impossible to walk into a bookstore or a library and not come ...

Our sex life is what I would describe as pretty normal, and on nights when we do it, he sleeps soundly after. Same thing when he’s given head. It’s when he doesn’t get either that he becomes an ...

Writer and editor Githa Hariharan, who successfully challenged the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act in 1995 to uphold the ...

Oscar Hijuelos's 'Mr. Ives' Christmas' doesn't start out as a cheery story—but in the end, this parable of good will lost and ...

In this edition of our monthly thematic roundup of BookLife titles, we feature visually compelling books, as well as ...