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Helping Incarcerated Writers Find Their Voices at Parchman Prison

Helping Incarcerated Writers Find Their Voices at Parchman Prison

W. Ralph Eubanks Explores Literary Life in a Forgotten Corner of the Mississippi Delta

By W. Ralph Eubanks | January 14, 2026

It’s Okay to Hate <em>The House of Mirth</em>

It’s Okay to Hate The House of Mirth

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Sahar Mustafah on the ADL’s Quiet Indoctrination of American Schools

“It has rigorously weaponized Jewish victimhood in order to foment fear.”

By Sahar Mustafah | August 27, 2025

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

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By Piers Gelly | July 28, 2025

What a Plunge! Teaching <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em> to High Schoolers in 2025

What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025

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What Nathaniel Hawthorne Has To Say to Silicon Valley About Techno-Optimism

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Princeton Goes to Prison: Teaching Paradise Lost to Incarcerated Students in New Jersey

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By Leonard Cassuto | November 1, 2024

Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

Megan Pinto on Mindfulness and Contemplation as Literary Practice

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Here are the 2024/25 National Book Foundation Teacher Fellows.

Here are the 2024/25 National Book Foundation Teacher Fellows.

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When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door

When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door

Nathan Deuel on (Trying) to Teach Travel Writing in the Middle of the UCLA Student Protests

By Nathan Deuel | August 9, 2024

A Better Way to Teach History: On Adapting James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me”

A Better Way to Teach History: On Adapting James Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me”

Nate Powell on Book Bans and the Problem of American “Heroification”

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What Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood Reveals About Its Author's Intentions

Rachael Hanel on Teaching a True Crime Classic to Incarcerated Women

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The (un)Lonely Reader: On the Pleasure of Finding Community in a Book

The (un)Lonely Reader: On the Pleasure of Finding Community in a Book

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