Kam Reads and Recs

In case you might be wondering how I acquired this hefty assignment, to review Gravity’s Rainbow, roughly halfway through my years abroad (1

The emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. took place over a protracted period. The articles in this curated list dig into the complica

The goals are all that really count, in the end—maybe they are all we need to watch. Watching the clips, we have gotten away with something:

A newly digitized archive traces a roller-skating queer icon from Pride marches and discos to AIDS activism.

In the wake of ongoing discussions about whether we can love monstrous writers, or whether we should even write monstrous characters, I have

“I kissed a boy on that bench.” I pointed out the car window and told my eight-year-old daughter this information. The bench sat outside wha

It is called the drifting post, he explained, because the letters drift between heaven and earth. Set within a stretch of coastal woodland,

The Town of Boston’s invention of the standing committee 250 years ago provided a means for building consensus during America’s nascent inde

It’s a fairly conventional belief in fiction writing that the strongest structure of a short story is one in which a character changes over

A brilliant writer friend of mine said to me that writing a novel isn’t an efficient process and people want the efficient. Efficiency, rati

As a Brit living in the US, I get two Mother’s Days every year—the UK celebration in March and the American one in May. It used to mean a do

You’re finally nearing the end of the Holy Highway that leads to gladness and joy. This after so many beginnings. It was six days ago that y

Why is everyone killing off their main characters? In the academic year 2021-2022 at the liberal arts college where I teach, I was startled

Dreams, cinema, and waking life collide in the final film of visionary Satoshi Kon.