March 29, 2024
1. In Scarred, you describe your journey traveling to twenty countries in just over a year. Can you describe what motivated you to undertake so much travel, and how your… READ MORE
March 26, 2024
An Excerpt From Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month Solution by Gayle Kaufman Parental leave may result in lower wages. There is plenty of evidence that mothers experience a wage… READ MORE
March 19, 2024
Featuring Author and Founder of The American Prison Writing Archive, Doran Larson, in Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander, President of the Mellon Foundation Including a Q&A with Larson’s former students Jason… READ MORE
March 11, 2024
Join us as we celebrate Ramadan by exploring the diverse experiences of Muslim life. These titles offer a variety of perspectives, exploring Islam and its subcultures through lenses of gender,… READ MORE
March 8, 2024
Excerpted from I Write the Yawning Void: Selected Essays of Sindiwe Magona by Sindiwe Magona, published by Wits University Press I can’t believe I have been writing for more than… READ MORE
March 5, 2024
You spent a year researching this book at four large, municipal police departments all located within the same southern state. You did tactical training alongside future police officers, and interviewed… READ MORE
February 23, 2024
An Excerpt from Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal by Gary S. Cross Originally Published by LitHub Day to day, we experience time in blocks of work and… READ MORE
February 15, 2024
An Excerpt from Black and Brown African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 by Gerald Horne As Mexico surged to independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century, those of… READ MORE
February 13, 2024
Whether you’re celebrating love or embracing singledom, this Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to make a date with a book. These titles dive into the intricacies of love, from… READ MORE
February 12, 2024
At a recent launch for my memoir Who Gets In: An Immigration Story at Canada’s National Archives in Ottawa, two young attendees told me they’d attended because they were in the middle… READ MORE
Six Classics of Queer Literature