In Make Trouble, Cecile Richards recounts a life of agitating for justice
If you don’t want to hear Cecile Richards’s opinion, don’t ask. After a lifetime of working to protect the rights of the downtrodden and disenfranchised, she has earned the platform…
Amy Hempel finds truth in fiction sentence by sentence
…Prize Spotlight Award. Her fiction has appeared in places like Kenyon Review, Guernica, Glimmer Train, and American Short Fiction. She earned her M.F.A. at Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville….
Leah Stewart’s latest novel shines a spotlight on the art of acting under pressure
“Something terrible is about to happen to Charlie Outlaw,” Leah Stewart writes in the opening passage of her clever new novel, What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw. “This terrible…
Joel Harrington considers the medieval life of New Age favorite, Meister Eckhart
…ideas are widely known, their original context is not. Vanderbilt historian Joel Harrington sets out to fill that vacancy with Dangerous Mystic, an examination of the religious, cultural, and political…
The poems in Marilyn Kallet’s new collection embrace the human struggle to reconcile the animal and the divine
How Our Bodies Learned, the latest book by poet Marilyn Kallet, is a sensual and spiritual collection of poems that explore the paradox of love—how it is both humanity’s problem…
