Digital Publishing for the English Community
“The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” Richard Powers’ novel, Overstory, does exactly this. He makes it nearly impossible to leave this book feeling the same as you did before. He taps into questions and truths far bigger than I Read More …
Unless you have been residing under a rock, you are well aware of the state of the world at this moment. Most of you are probably reading this from your quarantine cell, or home, to put more lightly. I won’t lie; at first, I was excited for my classes to be moved online, and the Read More …
To say that the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the University of Michigan’s world upside down would be an understatement. The recent outbreak has shifted all classes to an online format, and sent many students home to finish out the semester there. As an English major currently enrolled in three English classes, seeing how each instructor Read More …
In recent years, poetry has taken on a new shape, one that reaches us where we find ourselves the most: social media. Modern poets coined with the name “Instapoets” have taken their work online, publishing their poems via social media posts and creating experiences that allow visual art to coexist with poetic writing. Taking this Read More …
One evening last semester, I lounged on my couch with my roommate, drinking hot chocolate while we trash-talked pretension in academia. We complained about articles filled with long-winded jargon seemingly meant only to confuse the reader. We griped about the class readings we didn’t care about but were required to write papers on. We moaned Read More …
February is a distinct month in Michigan. Winter is drawing to a close, spring is on the horizon, and pretty soon the Great Lakes will start to generate their waves again. While those gathered in the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery on February 25th at 5:30 PM ranged in diversity, one thing they all very well Read More …
Interweaving narrative, metaphor, and reflection with overarching questions and social theory, Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir, In the Dream House, is an account of Machado’s harrowing experience in an abusive relationship. More than that, In the Dream House examines the unique circumstances that arise from abusive queer relationships compared to abusive heteronormative ones. She tackles the Read More …
As young, inexperienced college students, many of us are seeking good advice and reliable role models to help get us through life’s challenges. For Mitch Albom, that source of inspiration was Morrie Schwartz, his old sociology professor. A compilation of the good advice and meaningful conversations with his dying professor, Tuesdays with Morrie offers Read More …
Last semester, for one of my English courses I read The Vegetarian by Han Kang. The novel was originally published in 2007 in South Korea, Kang’s home country, and later translated into English in 2015, where a year later Vegetarian became the first Korean novel to win the Man Booker International Prize. Deborah Smith, the Read More …
I don’t have a favorite book. Yes, I have a solid group of four or five that read over and over again, but I’ve never been good at picking one solid favorite. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, however, is one that keeps appearing in my life whenever I seem to need it the most. Read More …
