Salvatore Scibona, one of The New Yorker‘s new “20 Under 40” writers, talks with Chapter 16
…in their own minds. Prior to his public reading at Vanderbilt University tonight, Scibona answered questions for Chapter 16 via email. Chapter 16: Your first novel, The End, has an…
Scholar Sam B. Girgus considers the cinema of redemption
…cinema? For Sam B. Girgus, a professor of English at Vanderbilt University, these films come together under an umbrella he calls the “cinema of redemption,” a “multinational body of films”…
Scholar Larry May examines the legal questions around genocide
…in a 1944 book on German-occupied Europe. But, as Vanderbilt law professor Larry May explains in Genocide: A Normative Account, international law embraces a definition of genocide that extends well…
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer T.J. Stiles talks with Chapter 16 about the life and legacy of Cornelius Vanderbilt
…he named after his heroes: George Washington Vanderbilt, William Henry Vanderbilt (after William Henry Harrison), and Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt (after himself, of course). Chapter 16: Why do you think regional…
In Leah Stewart’s new novel, an infidelity jars a former poet into reconsidering her marriage and its costs
…Leah Stewart (a Vanderbilt graduate and former visiting professor at both Vanderbilt and Sewanee), takes up the task with keen insight and subtle wit. But it also has, significantly, a…
