The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Theater of War Productions puts its hope in a seemingly dark premise: that the pain we all experience in everyday life has healing properties for America’s deep divisions.
TIME
Read Danté Stewart’s latest opinion piece with TIME Magazine: Progress is not a given. It is won.
NYT
Read Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s op-ed on the resiliency of butterflies in the face of adapting to dramatic changes in climate, food availability and urban development.
Vanity Fair
Stephanie Burt on Taylor Swift, relatability, and her course at a college famous for being famous.
Harpers Bazaar
Airea D. Mathews on play: “Barbie reminds me of the imaginative intensity that children take on to push past time and space.”
G&L Review
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on writing black, queer fiction: “‘So, your mother is a Black feminist? No wonder your writing is so queer!’”
New York Times
Read Beth Ann Fennelly’s essay, “I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them” here.
The Yale Review
Aminatta Forna pens a reflection on memoir writing and transcending the trauma narrative.
bon appétit
Torrey Peters on the end of her marriage: “I thought I could save my marriage by repressing my transness. I couldn’t.”
Elle
Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo takes Elle’s literary survey.