Report from the Field: The Silence of a Siren

Report from the Field: The Silence of a Siren

At 8am I have students hunched over their copies of The Aeneid with questions from the night before, clarifications rising like exhalations of vapor in...

Women Writing Books About Film

Women Writing Books About Film

Don’t worry. You will make it through this. Stay calm. If you are reading this, you are here.   You are here because you are...

Fighting Against Ghosthood

Fighting Against Ghosthood

“I met History once,” the St. Lucian writer Derek Walcott said in his sprawling poem “Schooner Flight,” “but he ain’t recognize me.” As a transgender...

VIDA Reads with Writers — Maxe Crandall!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Maxe Crandall!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’ve just started Jarett Kopek’s new novel I Hate the Internet, crucial & convenient because I’m...

VIDA Reads with Writers — Carina del Valle Schorske!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Carina del Valle Schorske!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Poetry was made for the wiggle room in a tight day. Today,...

VIDA Reads with Writers — Ocean Vuong!

VIDA Reads with Writers — Ocean Vuong!

What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Christopher Soto’s Sad Girl Poems and Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs To You....

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