Allen Ginsberg, Religious Experience and the Anxiety of ‘Othering’
by Jonas Faust Throughout his five-decade career, Beat-poet-turned-countercultural-icon Allen Ginsberg [1] presented himself in- and outside of his poetic work...
Tagged: American Literature
The Guilty Pleasures of the F.B.I: Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin
by Aija Oksman Ever since the early-twentieth century, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considered writers (novelists and journalists alike)...
Crime, Class, and the City: Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle (2021)
by Valentina Lopez Liendo Where do you go as a writer after being awarded back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes? Somewhere where you...
Writing The Modern Mother: The Complex Struggles of Motherhood in Brit Bennett’s The Mothers (2016)
By Johanna Decker Mothers have served as some of the most beloved heroines, but also as some of the most...
Reading Colson Whitehead
By Valentina López Liendo Colson Whitehead is perhaps most widely known for his latest two novels The Underground Railroad (2016),...