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In Teaching Stories of Disaster, Hope Lies Hidden in Plain Sight
The murmurs ebb; onto the stage I enter. I am trying, standing in the door, To discover in the distant echoes What the coming years may hold in store. –Boris Pasternak, “Hamlet” (from the poems of...
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The dictator of Belarus is trying to silence Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich.
Alexander Lukashenko, the first and only president of Belarus, a man who is often referred to as Europe’s sole dictator, has been lashing out like a cornered animal since mass protests began in his...
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Voices of the People: 5 Books That Expand Our Ideas of Oral History
I became interested in oral history after encountering Studs Terkel’s Working and the early works of Svetlana Alexievich and even Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, which could be read as the most...
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Revisiting Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War During Russia’s...
Welcome to Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books. Combining literary analysis with an in-depth look at historical context, host Catherine Nichols chooses one book for each year of the 20th century,...
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Mirinae Lee on Learning How to Write About War
To have your work compared to a monumental literary title is always an honor and a burden to a writer. My debut novel, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster is often described as a historical novel...
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Why We Need a Women’s History of the Roman Empire
There is a story from the 1970s often told by Roman historians of gender. It goes like this: students at an American college approached their male professor, a revered Roman historian, to request a...
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