Joumana Khatib

A Harvard professor goes wide in this study of the humanities and human creativity... As he guides readers along a Nefertiti to TikTok continuum, he shows how cultural exchange and innovation help societies address some of life’s most existential questions.

Joumana Khatib

Read this memoir for the thrilling, improbable sentences that stop you cold...Most of all, read it for the sheer pleasure of listening to someone render a memory so tactile you can astrally project yourself there.

Joumana Khatib

I reviewed a new translation of "Forbidden Notebook," a brilliant diaristic novel by the late Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Céspedes. https://t.co/CobK6oqDiB

Joumana Khatib

Page rose to prominence for roles in “Juno” and “Inception,” and came out as trans in 2020... In his story, he offers moving descriptions of what it’s like to experience gender dysphoria, and details the happiness and self-acceptance he now feels.

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She often borrows from her life in her work. I talked to her friend Margaux (an avatar of her appears in Heti's "How Should a Person Be?"): "What Sheila’s doing is acknowledging the ego that’s present in every creative work and getting it out of the way." https://t.co/pnE4NYYrfl

Joumana Khatib

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers reviews "Recitatif," Toni Morrison's only short story that's now been published as a standalone book. It follows two friends, one Black and the other white, but never confirms the race of either character. https://t.co/4mFJivGfgf

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RT @levistahl: “You could die from it,” she declared, meaning that party. —Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

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RT @Liz_A_Harris: The National Book Award winners have been announced! Jason Mott’s “Hell of a Book” won for fiction and Tiya Miles’s “All…

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RT @jenszalai: Congrats to Marcia Chatelain, who has won a Pulitzer Prize for FRANCHISE: THE GOLDEN ARCHES IN BLACK AMERICA — one of my fa…

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This translation is done by Emily Wilson, who is a classicist. She really made waves with her previous translation of the Odyssey... I love the idea of people across America waking up and saying, 'Honey, a new Homer just dropped.' That seems like a beautiful world to me.