by Erin Gould | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Publishing in Academia: Reflectionsfrom a ’24th Grader’ I remember my thoughts as I walked into the book exhibit at a conference in London last summer: “Can I just snuggle amongst all the books?” That may sound a little ridiculous, but I’ve always loved being in...
by Kelsey McFaul | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
UnBreakable Bonds: Literary Ecosystems in Africa The 2019 theme for the Writivism Literary Festival in Kampala, Uganda—“UnBreakable Bonds” —began with a question: what does it mean to be a prize competition, and by extension a publisher, only open to writers living on...
by Publab Alumni | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Spanish is Not a Foreign Language: Publishing and National Identity In 2018, the Latinx population in the United States reached 59.9 million.[1] Given the current climate of fear and uncertainty created by the policies of the Trump administration toward immigrant...
by Shaina Goel | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
High-Tech and Haute Couture Cybernetic signs and symbols have increasingly become a magnetizing spectacle in contemporary culture. The cyborg as a hybrid of human and machine in high fashion runway shows of the late 20th and early 21st centuries and the ways in which...
by A.M. Genova | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
“Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii”: Replication and the Art of the Senses “Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii” is a marble sculpture designed by Randolph Rogers [1825–1892], and reproduced in two sizes for 167 copies. “Nydia” portrays how narratives can...
by Ethan Wedel | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Commentary on Ode 1.37 by Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC), known to the anglophone world as Horace, was a Roman lyric poet. Published between 23 BC and 13 BC, his Odes are a collection of praise songs, adapted principally from earlier Greek lyrics, on...