Home—Pennsylvania and Poland—ancestry, immigrant aunts, and travel to several European cities form the basis of Mary Kovaleski Byrnes’ book So Long the Sky (Platypus Press)....
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Compassionate Curating: On the (Literal) Cost of a Seat at the Table
Let’s begin with the obvious, the unspoken: making books costs money. More to the point, making books costs someone’s money. And, even more to the...
Report from the Field: A Working-Class Academic on Loving Elena Ferrante
Last September, during a sultry late-summer lunch hour in Manhattan, I had a street encounter that very nearly moved me to tears. I was crossing...