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Congratulations to Benjamin Schwartz, whose essay, "The Unfinishedness & Untimeliness of A Raisin in the Sun" has won the Volume 64 Tony Hilfer Prize for best essay written by a graduate student!
Congratulations to Paul Schmidt, whose essay, " 'No Sorcery:' Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in Walter Tevis’ The Queen’s Gambit" has won the Volume 64 Tony Hilfer Prize for best essay!
Looking for something to read this summer? Check out Vol. 64 of TSLL in its entirety! #LiteraryFiction #Literature #Criticism #Journal #ScholarlyPublishing
Read Vol. 64, No. 3 here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/48945
Read Vol. 64, No. 4 here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/48946
In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, we'd like to highlight Richard Wright’s Native Son, a portrait of the experience of Black youth in 1930s Chicago. Read one of TSLL’s articles discussing Native Son, and the contributor’s recent thoughts on how the novel relates to the world today.
Gregory Phipps
“‘He Wished That He Could Be an Idea in Their Minds’: Legal Pragmatism and the Construction of White Subjectivity in Richard Wright’s Native Son.”
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Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth by checking out our past special issue on #ToniMorrison’s Narrative Strategies from Spring 1991: jstor.org/stable/i40034276
#ToniMorrison #Beloved #BlackHistoryMonth
Worthy Messengers: Narrative Voices in Toni Morrison's Novels
Catherine Rainwater
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Going to the Texas Book Festival this weekend? Check out the schedule for UT Press authors on the @UTPressJournals blog: utpress.utexas.edu/blog/2022…
Jaecheol Kim shines a spotlight on Shakespeare, modern adaptations, and Jewish identity in an interview with Nicolas Silva. The interview is available here on the @UTPressJournals blog: utpress.utexas.edu/blog/2022…
Read “Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name and the Badiou-Agamben Debate on Paul the Apostle” by Jaecheol Kim in TSLL’s Fall 2022 issue: muse.jhu.edu/article/867763
Are you a fan of The Queen’s Gambit? Are you fascinated by the artistry of chess or the skillfulness of art? Check out this intriguing interview with Paul Schmidt, conducted by Leslie Peterson, on the @UTPressJournals blog: utpress.utexas.edu/blog/2022…
Read “‘No Sorcery’: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit” by Paul Schmidt in TSLL’s Fall 2022 issue: muse.jhu.edu/article/867764
Puzzled about the connection between crosswords and poetry? To learn more, read this exciting interview with David Ben-Merre, conducted by intern Leslie Peterson, on the @UTPressJournals blog: utpress.utexas.edu/blog/2022…
Check out “‘The Moon Slides Down the Stair / To See Who's There’: The Poetics of the Crossword and the Cross Words of Poetics” by David Ben-Merre in TSLL’s Summer 2022 issue: muse.jhu.edu/article/857552





