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The Catcher in the Rye: The College Years If you thought Holden Caulfield was insufferable before, you’ll find that expulsion from prep school was a mere warm-up for the incessant...
Perhaps it was for decades held in check...
This is not the America I heard of,...
Between 1910 to 1970, millions of African Americans left the South in search of greater opportunities for freedom, rights, and economic mobility. Due to sheer scale, this human mov...
There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress Mark Twain By Dr. Jim Ferguson Perhaps the reason I became an internist is because I notice details, differences...
The second installment in Desai’s series picks up right where the initial entry, Bad Americans: Part I (2025), left off. The year is 2020, and Covid-19 is rampant throughout the wo...
Bobuq Sayed’s début, No God but Us, reinvents the modern American Abroad novel––the story, now over a century old, of Americans departing the US and crossing an ocean to find freed...
At the Author Lunch with Colson Whitehead, the conversation moved between reading, rejection, labor, and artificial intelligence. Whitehead spoke as an indoor child shaped by The T...
At the Author Lunch with Colson Whitehead, the conversation moved between reading, rejection, labor, and artificial intelligence. Whitehead spoke as an indoor child shaped by The T...
Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for Apr 15, 2026 A Literature Quiz : What do you remember about the classics? 1. Ishmael and Queequeq join Captain Ahab and the crew of the Pe...
“When Jack Was With Us” is a powerful work of urban realism that plunges readers into the raw, unsentimental streets of New York City from the late 1950s through the turbulent 196...
The English department I hoped to join had two tenure-track jobs going that year, and one of them looked straightforward enough. They needed a medievalist, someone to do Chaucer an...
In 1968, Roland Barthes heralded “The Death of the Author,” arguing that all writing is polyphonic in nature. If we believe him, meaning making is inherently open: layered voices s...
Relaxed in a chenille armchair, a young Larry McMurtry grins at a striped kitten yearning for attention in his lap. Emblazoned on his black crewneck, in white military typeface, ar...
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Listen, I don’t have thin skin. If I did, I would teach fourth grade and cry along with my students when the spider died at the end of Charlotte’s Web. Anyone can teach kids; I tea...
AUK would like to invite fiction writers to submit short stories inspired by the world of americana music for publication on Americana UK. Whether it’s a tale sparked by a particul...
The world we used to write in and about is gone.
In a fast-paced digital world filled with trending content and short attention spans, classic literature continues to stand tall as a pillar of depth and meaning. These works, writ...
An overlooked experiment from a remarkably ambitious late fifties period of bassist Charles Mingus, 1958's A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry doesn't actually include poet...
Shortly after Beatrice and Maxine Clark moved to Los Angeles at 19 and 18 respectively, Beatrice made her music debut as Blue Velour, inspired by a couch the sisters found on the s...
“For some months—since I was told about this award—I have been trying to find the point in my life when this fiction stuff and I became friends. I cannot find it.”
This essay is adapted from Traversal. Sitting in the packed playhouse of the Bowery Theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side one balmy evening in the summer of 1833 is a teenage boy...
“I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
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