Kam Reads and Recs

A personal history of animation’s reconquest of Hollywood.

An archive of recorded interviews captures how ordinary people experienced one of the defining chapters of American history.

Nearly six decades since its founding, the legacy of the beloved program is explored in an exhibition at Columbia University’s Wallach Art G

The prose in these historical novels set on islands is glittering and beautiful.

There is one conversation I remember most distinctly from my MFA in literary translation. I was chatting with a nonfiction student about the

Some species have adapted to get themselves close to freezing without dying.

It’s been a joy imagining the world of Anne Boleyn and her family for my new novel, The House of Boleyn. I loved immersing myself in their b

On the music of new poetry collections from Jennifer Clarvoe and Susan Stewart.

“I always feel that Duras’s texts are already ripe for another medium, and their rhythm is the vehicle.”

In the video art pioneer's first US exhibition, water’s changing states become a metaphor for the city.

Empire, language, violence, and metamorphosis in a kaleidoscopic novel of the Apache Wars.

They tread a landscape existentially threatened by human wreckage yet are drawn to their fellow species, intriguing and strangely self-destr