by Shweta Deshpande | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Beyond the Photographs: New Perspectives on Travel Cambodia is the land of Angkor Wat, a World Heritage Site more widely known than the country itself. “City of the Gods” and “Kingdom of Wonder;” these are some of the ways in which the temple complex has been...
by Jeanny Fuentes | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Challenging Patriarchy in María de Zayas’s “Novelas” The virtual archival exhibit Wise and Valiant: Women and Writing in the Spanish Golden Age, curated by Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute and the National Library of...
by Publab Alumni | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Lessons Learned from a Self-Plagiarist This past year, writer’s block hit me more acutely than ever. Time I had blocked off to write became day-long reading sprees and, when that felt too mentally taxing, hours of binge watching. Clearly, I needed help. That’s why I...
by Derek O'Leary | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Pilgrims at the Plantation “The moment you’ve been waiting for!” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Aaron Burr announces in Act I of Hamilton. “The pride of Mount Vernon: George Washington,” who stomps, stern and capable, onto the stage. (Thanks, Disney+.) There’s little new left...
by Olivia Joyce | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020, Uncategorized
REVELATIONS in Isolation In late March, faced with the new shelter-in-place order and only a faint understanding of the damage COVID-19 was to bring, I turned to my mother’s bookcase for a chance to escape. Luckily, I live with a parent who is a writer, poet, and...
by Madison Felman-Panagotacos | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Sacrificial Motherhood and Bodily Autonomy Deolinda Correa trudged across the arid Cuyo Valley in search of her husband, her infant son in tow. While her initial goal was the pursuit of her husband, who had been forcibly conscripted by a regional caudillo — a...
