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James Baldwin traveled to London in 1968; here, he is pictured at the Albert Memorial next to a statue of William Shakespeare, a key figure in the traditional Western canon. (Photo Credit: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

James Baldwin and His World, Revisited

Charlotte Zhou, Staff Reporter
April 19, 2024
“We defend free speech not because we want the right to scream at the top of our lungs. We defend free speech because our society and democracy depend upon our ability to reason with others, persuade, and be persuaded… The battle were waging is a fight for the lifeblood of writers, our kids education, our birthright as citizens, and the soul of our democracy,” said CEO Suzanne Nossel. (Photo Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for PEN America. Used by permission of PEN America.)

Putting PEN to Paper: A Conversation with PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel

Nora Torok, Staff Reporter
July 21, 2023
Here is a studio headshot of Albert Camus, taken in 1945.

Albert Camus: The Absurdist Mastermind of the Twentieth Century

Aaqib Gondal, Staff Reporter
March 14, 2023
The cover of the book Starfish has sea animals in the galaxy, showing how everything (quite literally) revolves around them.

Akemi Dawn Bowman’s Novel ‘Starfish’ Promotes Self-Acceptance Through the Lens of an Asian-American High Schooler

Rida Nuamah, Staff Reporter
December 10, 2022
Balli Kaur Jaswal has been commended for her ability to hook readers worldwide with her books, which combine enthralling storytelling with crucial diversity of characters and thought.

The Novelist Balli Kaur Jaswal Tells Her Story

Mandeep Kaur, Staff Reporter
July 25, 2022
“Labels tend to reflect the novels/stories that the public responds to and what a writer can sell (they need to make a living, after all), despite a writers broad output. Jackson is not the only one who has been categorized based on mass appeal, but a deeper reading of an authors entire output often reveals more variety than a writers reputation would indicate,” Mr. Licardo said.

Estranged Estates and Fallible Females: How Shirley Jackson’s ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ Redefined Feminist Literature

Camila Kulahlioglu, Staff Reporter
April 23, 2022
Jeffrey Eugenides’ writing style is decorated with detail, haunted with mystery, and exemplifies the complexity of the human mind and experience, said Sela Emery 23.

Dark, Deep, and Dreamy: A Review of Jeffrey Eugenides’s Novels ‘Middlesex’ and ‘The Marriage Plot’

Katia Anastas, Staff Reporter
March 20, 2021
The Confidence Man is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. Scholar Robert Milder noted, Long mistaken for a flawed novel, the book is now admired as a masterpiece of irony and control, although it continues to resist interpretive consensus.

The Nature of Truth and Fiction in Herman Melville’s ‘The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade’

Fahim Zaman, Staff Reporter
December 4, 2020
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