Ilan Sta­vans is Lewis-Sebring Pro­fes­sor in Latin Amer­i­can and Lati­no Cul­ture at Amherst Col­lege. His most recent books are the col­lec­tion of essays Singer’s Type­writer…

Jami Atten­berg​’s most recent nov­el, The Mid­dlesteins, is now avail­able. Her oth­er books include: Instant Love, The Kept Man, and The Melt­ing Sea­son. She will be blog­ging…

Ear­li­er this week, Steve Stern wrote about embark­ing on a quixot­ic jour­ney and his deci­sion to teach cre­ative writ­ing in Vil­nius. He has been blog­ging here all…

In Lega­cy: A Genet­ic His­to­ry of the Jew­ish Peo­ple, Har­ry Ostr­er wrote about a series of sci­en­tists who con­tributed to our con­tem­po­rary under­stand­ing of…