Putting truth to power, even in verse, can lead to revolution.
How an Egyptian Song Mocking Nixon Became a Rallying Cry for the Arab Spring
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5 Lesbian Literary Novels to Dive Into This Summer
There have been many fantastic girl-on-girl novels written over the years. Here are five of the best.
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The Online Journals Giving a Voice to Africa's New Writers
As African literary magazines spring up, the continent's writers are finding a new freedom to tell their stories in their own voices.
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Walking in the Footsteps of Robert Frost
Following Frost is an exercise in suspending skepticism to reach deeper truths.
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From Zimbabwe: The Best Books of the Mugabe Years
To understand the tumultuous era of Mugabe's leadership, give these a read.
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52 Mini Memoirs on Kissing and Feminism: Your Next Great Read
These short reads on everything from lost embraces to the P-word are both fiery and cool.
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How a Young Poet Is Nurturing Empathy ... With Virtual Reality
Amanda Gorman is the first U.S. Youth Poet Laureate and now an OZY Genius Award Winner
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13 Books to Watch For in the First Half of 2018
Here are a dozen great books that speak to our times.
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Korea's 20-Something Poet Bridging History and Gender
Emily Jungmin Yoon weaves together strands from Korea's brutal past with contemporary issues of race, gender and sexual violence.
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7 Books That Put the Fierce into Black Queer History
These books by LGBTQ authors shine a light on key historical moments.
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Hélène Martin: Putting Poetry to Song
Intellectual heavyweight Jean Genet wrote powerfully about a friend's prison death. A French singer took the words and made them a song.
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A Swedish Filmmaker's Answer to Angst
It involves laugh bags, vampire teeth and a king who rises from the dead. What is it with Sweden?
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Rules for Burning Books
A professed lover of literature makes a case for book burning.
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Remembering the Poet Who Dreamed of a United Africa
Jacob Kushner remembers a Ghanaian poet, two years after the terrorist attack that killed him.
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Why You Should Listen to T.S. Eliot
Fifty years after Eliot's death, the sound of the 20th century's great conservative poet can still conjure St. Louis, Great Britain and the impending fog of war.
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India's Elegant Literary Hermit
The nation that has birthed a bevy of literary talent has one more treat for us.
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The Hip-Hop Novelist to Add to Your Reading List
A hip-hop artist and slam poet's debut novel hits the U.S. this year - and we peg him as a new great.
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A New Page for Cuba's Literary Scene
This island nation's literary scene remains limited and guarded today. But Cuban literature holds remarkable promise.
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Let's Send Philosophers and Poets to Mars
Hold your engines, NASA. Mars needs intellectuals and thinkers on board spaceships, too.
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The Surprisingly Sex-Filled Life of Shel Silverstein
Children's author Shel Silverstein was once a cartoonist at Playboy and a regular in Hugh Hefner's pleasure dome.
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