Literature and Creative Writing
Videogames; or, Literary Merit
Julián Carrera proposes that literary scholars should pay more attention to videogames.
When Cultural Appropriation Goes Wrong
Navigating a complex concept not only in the classroom but also in the real world.
Untitled
The second installment in our spring poetry series.
Citizenship and the Novel
A profile of novelist and NYUAD Creative Writing professor Miguel Syjuco.
Am I Defeated by a Raw Chicken?
Laura Deryng thinks about the significance of not knowing how to cook a chicken.
Two Poems
Two poems by Dubai-based poet Danabelle Gutierrez.
Favorite Theorists: Mikhail Bakhtin
Anna Balysheva traces the impact of Mikhail Bakhtin’s exile in her hometown.
Community Reading: The Great Gatsby and Gatz
We invite readers to leave comments and continue our Community Reading Event devoted to The Great Gatsby and Gatz.
Gatz: Making a Novel a Communal Event
How the Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz helps us realize that the novel, like theater, can be a deeply communal form.
Favorite Theorists: Pia Arke
What’s important about mixed-race Danish-Greenlandic artist and cultural theorist Pia Arke (1958–2007).
To Get Ready for Climate Change, Read Octavia Butler
Literary and environmental scholar Stephanie LeMenager argues that the novel Parable of the Sower and other works of “cli-fi” offer resources for thinking through the challenges posed by the Anthropocene.
Translating Dignity
A translation exercise leads students to contemplate the idea of “dignity” in cross-cultural contexts.