by Publab Alumni | Jun 25, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2018
As Invisible as Possible: Jose Antonio Villarán on Translating Album of Fences I felt an immediate connection with poet Omar Pimienta when we met at orientation. We were both starting graduate programs at the University of California, San Diego — I was in the MFA...
by Publab Alumni | Jun 25, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2018
Is it Time to Expand the Concept of Press Freedom? In 2016, a Norwegian writer posted an iconic image from the Vietnam War on Facebook — a photograph of nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc naked and screaming, running from an aerial napalm attack that inflicted severe...
by Shannon Eagen | Jun 25, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2018
Warby Parker and theBranding of Book Culture On a recent vacation to Chicago, I spent an afternoon exploring the hip Lincoln Park neighborhood that was my home for the week. I stumbled upon a Warby Parker store and was immediately consumed with trying on every pair of...
by Ali Lange | Jun 25, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2018
Shut Up & Leave Me Alone “We tend to think that a deeply ingrained system, such as capitalism, can be resisted only by equal and opposite action,” writes Alexandra Kleeman in her Vanity Fair review of one of 2018’s most talked about novels. “But in a culture based...
by Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez | Jun 25, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2018
Central American Writers in Conversation: Anthologies, Identity, and Community Salvadoran poet Leticia Hernández-Linares steps into the spotlight wearing a striped black-and-white dress with large flowing sleeves, a chunky beaded necklace, and bright red lipstick....
by Lisa Schantl | Jun 25, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2018
The Age of Poetry: On and off the Page Poetry is having a major moment. We seem to turn to it, to need it most when the world’s leaders debase language and thereby thought and action. And yet within the world of poetry, a division exists, an aesthetic line in the...
