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Working Writers: Nalini Jones on How Having a Day Job in Music Helped Her Write a Novel

Working Writers: Nalini Jones on How Having a Day Job in Music Helped Her Write a Novel

The Author of “The Unbroken Coast” Riffs on the Power of Holding a Job in Another Industry

By Nalini Jones | August 18, 2025

Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s <em>Home to Harlem</em>

Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

Belinda Edmondson on the Peripatetic Perspective of a Landmark Novel

By Belinda Edmondson | February 5, 2025

Martin Scorsese may be adapting Marilynne Robinson’s <i> Home. </i>

Martin Scorsese may be adapting Marilynne Robinson’s Home.

By Brittany Allen | November 15, 2024

How a Novel by Mildred D. Taylor Helped Glory Edim Understand Being Black in the South

How a Novel by Mildred D. Taylor Helped Glory Edim Understand Being Black in the South

The Author of “Gather Me” Reflects on Navigating Her Nigerian and American Identities

By Glory Edim | November 6, 2024

Decorating Houses With Edith Wharton: On Interior Design as Art and Literary Practice

Decorating Houses With Edith Wharton: On Interior Design as Art and Literary Practice

Emily J. Orlando Considers Another Creative Side of the Chronicler of the Gilded Age

By Emily J. Orlando | October 18, 2024

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Sadiya Ansari Considers the Impact and Legacy of Displacement After Partition

By Sadiya Ansari | August 14, 2024

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Support One Moment, Racism the Next: On Being a Black Nigerian Man in America

By Samuel Kóláwólé | July 3, 2024

The Making of Home: On Space, Scarcity, and the Production of Diasporic Aesthetics

By Simon Wu | July 1, 2024

Where is Mosab Abu Toha? A Poem from Gaza in 22 Languages

By Mosab Abu Toha | November 21, 2023

Finding Words in the Kitchen (Or: How I Stopped Hating Myself and Started Cooking)

Finding Words in the Kitchen (Or: How I Stopped Hating Myself and Started Cooking)

Diksha Basu on Rediscovering the Food of Her Youth

By Diksha Basu | April 26, 2023

Shelley Read on Place, Home, and Being a Fifth-Generation Coloradan

Shelley Read on Place, Home, and Being a Fifth-Generation Coloradan

The Author of Go As a River in Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life

By The Literary Life | March 24, 2023

“Where You Been? Why You Back? What You Doin Now?” Lakiesha Carr on Returning Home to Write

“Where You Been? Why You Back? What You Doin Now?” Lakiesha Carr on Returning Home to Write

Because Sometimes You Have to Go Back to East Texas to Find Your Voice

By Lakiesha Carr | March 2, 2023

Searching For Home with Samuel Beckett

Searching For Home with Samuel Beckett

"It’s possible that carrying around cracks in the first foundation... helps a person accept a cosmos flawed at its core."

By Ken Babstock | January 4, 2023

Qian Julie Wang on Zou Or, The Act of Leaving

Qian Julie Wang on Zou Or, The Act of Leaving

"I worried that the act of returning home—only it was no longer that, not really—had left me irrevocably unraveled."

By Qian Julie Wang | November 7, 2022

The Lost Stitch, The Loosened Tile: Akiko Busch on the Ambiguities of Home

The Lost Stitch, The Loosened Tile: Akiko Busch on the Ambiguities of Home

“I remember the feel of these rooms much more than I even remember the people in them.”

By Akiko Busch | September 19, 2022

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

By Liska Jacobs | July 19, 2022

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