Peter Ho Davies talks with Chapter 16 about writing, teaching, and growing up in a Welsh-Chinese home
…creative writing at the University of Michigan. Known for employing a wide array of viewpoints and time periods, Davies’s stories cover vast emotional territory—from the struggles of an aging pair…
The Melting There should be hope in the leaves’ first turning— summer green fringed red and yellow, webbed hands reaching out against the curtain’s blue. Winter and what it takes…
Salvatore Scibona, one of The New Yorker‘s new “20 Under 40” writers, talks with Chapter 16
…to be writing some kind of novel. Salvatore Scibona will read from his work at 7 p.m. on September 23 in Buttrick Hall, Room 102, on the Vanderbilt University campus….
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…
