by Charlotte Taylor | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Young, Black, and Magical: The Renaissance of YA Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction In the late 2010s, an explosion of young adult (YA) novels by Black women flooded through a previously White-dominated sphere, topping publisher lists week after week. Novels like...
by Mary Huber | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
To Feel Them Full: Reading Empathy in Keats When you read a lot of poetry, people tend to assume that you have grasped something ineffable. They might remark that you are a sensitive and empathetic person because you have spent so much of your life in the minds of...
by Mackenzie Weeks Mahoney | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Who Do You Serve When You Serve Yourself? Consumer Labor, Automation, and a Century of Self-Service We rarely need to ask what “self-service” means. When you fill up your gas tank on the way to work, or surreptitiously mix Coke with horchata at the soda fountain, or...
by Taylor Held | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Seeing Minds Through Minds: Determining Whose Perception to Trust in Sense and Sensibility The Dashwood sisters are on the verge of a crisis. They are young, single, fatherless, and fortuneless; marriage is their only method of attaining financial and personal...
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...
