Why do people write autobiographies? Some do it out of a sense of triumphalism. Others do it to leave behind a defence for their actions. Still, others do it because they think their stories are worth telling. In the case of Maggie, it is a celebration – a celebration of a place – Abule–Oja, Yaba– … Read more
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz, a former Obama Administration official, was six years old when she became, as she puts it, “a card-carrying Indian”—an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, from whom she is descended on her mother’s side. The occasion was marked by the delivery of a typewritten card, issued by the tribe’s … Read more
Back in 2012, some years before her husband, Donald Trump, was elected President of the United States, Melania Trump tweeted a picture of a beluga whale, its glistening white head emerging from the water, its toothy maw open in a half grin. “What is she thinking?” the Slovenian-born onetime model captioned the image. Over the … Read more
Home Education Mithila Art: A book curated to revive and promote Bihar’s Madhubani Art and rich heritage of India With the creative vision of Shreya Sarda’s Mumbai-based design firm DesignFlyover (DFO), this book transforms texts and images into a rich visual experience. “Mithila Art: A 360 Degree Review” New Delhi: To revive and promote the … Read more
Going through the book Torus of Verses – Anthology of Poems and Poetic Eulogies, I couldn’t help but notice something intriguing. It reminded me of another book by the same author, Kufre Ntuk, titled Tribe of the Wet Sun. What struck me was the author’s seamless transition from prose to poetry; it seemed as effortless … Read more
In the nineteen-twenties, United States officials began preparing for the possibility of war in the Pacific, and the consequences this would have for the territory of Hawaii. About a third of Hawaii’s population were people of Japanese descent, a community that had first arrived in the late eighteen-hundreds to work in the sugarcane and pineapple … Read more
In October, 2018, on the night of a high-school homecoming dance in Southlake, Texas, a group of white students gathered at a friend’s house for an after-party. At some point, about eight of them piled together on a bed and, with a phone, filmed themselves chanting the N-word. The blurry, seesawing video went viral, and, … Read more
The narrator of Eliza Barry Callahan’s “The Hearing Test” is an artist in her late twenties named Eliza who lives in New York City. She wakes up one morning in August with a buzz in her ear that’s accompanied by the sound of “perpetually rolling thunder.” “It’s like God adjusting his piano stool but never … Read more
Decisions, decisions, decisions … our lives are filled with them. Some are small, like what to make for dinner or which television show to watch tonight. Even small decisions like these can be difficult to make, but they are not likely to impact your life over the long term. Others, however, can actually have life-changing … Read more
David Solway is something of a modern-day Renaissance man. On the back of his book Crossing the Jordan, he describes himself as an essayist, songwriter, and poet, but then goes on to refer to over 30 books that he has published in areas ranging from poetry, travel, and education theory to translation and politics, … Read more
