History Lesson (The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King)
Thomas King's knack for humor and pathos brings us face to face with North America's awful historical and present-day treatment of Native peoples. [Read More]
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To Perceive Is to Suffer (The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison)
Leslie Jamison's extraordinary essay collection combines the personal essay, reportage, cultural criticism, and philosophy to examine human empathy. [Read More]
Unusual Calls for Submissions: March Edition
Spring is almost here and with it a bunch of deadlines! [Read More]
Unusual Calls for Submissions: February Edition
Our monthly listing of unusual calls for submissions and contests! [Read More]
Unusual Calls for Submissions: January Edition
Is “submit more” one of your resolutions for 2015? Consider one of the following! [Read More]
Unusual Calls for Submissions: December Edition
What better way to weather the long winter than by submitting your work? Here are some unusual [Read More]
Unusual Calls for Submissions: October Edition
October is here, which means a number of your favorite lit mags have opened submissions for the [Read More]
No Common Reader (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman)
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998) collects eighteen [Read More]
War Graphics (Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi)
In Marjane Satrapi’s 2004 memoir, Persepolis:The Story of a Childhood, we read about the life [Read More]
Plagiarisms, etc. (The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem)
Artists and their surrogates who fall into the trap of seeking recompense for every possible second [Read More]
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