Instagram isn’t just for sharing photos of cappuccinos and cats anymore.
Last term, all it took were three weeks of classes guided by visiting professor and writer Jeff Sharlet for the entire class of English students to realize that Instagram …
Release Salinger’s manuscripts!
Another year has gone by and Salinger’s unpublished works remain a mystery to the public; how long will his literary estate keep this up? And is posthumous publication ever really unjustifiable?
Mind, body, spirit: beating autoimmune disease
I want to be an overall better, healthy individual with the wisdom that this illness is not who I am.
What this Nobel in Literature really means
Svetlana Alexievich’s win isn’t just a win for women, but for an entire underappreciated literary genre
When Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature last week, I immediately received word of the achievement from a friend on Twitter. She tweeted to me, “LIT JOURNO NOBEL!!!” to which I replied, “AND A WOMAN!!!” To …
Letter from an American student: I think of Dublin as a dreamland
I have filtered Ireland through her female writers since leaving Dublin last summer.
I fantasise about Dublin at least once per day. The streets there had opened wide before me, offering turns that would lead to new sounds and histories. Each coloured door, too, beckoned me along, begging me to stay.
Having spent …