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February 21, 2022
The Common Adds Editors and Educator to Board of Directors
NEWS and EVENTS
The Common, Amherst College’s award-winning literary magazine, announces the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors: Kate Nintzel, Lee Oglesby and Tara Safronoff. Willie Perdomo, The Common’s former Interviews Editor, will join the magazine’s Editorial Board.
The Common, Amherst College’s award-winning literary magazine, announces the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors: Kate Nintzel, Lee Oglesby and Tara Safronoff. Willie Perdomo, The Common’s former Interviews Editor, will join the magazine’s Editorial Board.
The Common Adds Editors Katherine Nintzel and Lee Oglesby plus Educator Tara Safronoff to Board of Directors, Willie Perdomo to Editorial Board
NEWS and EVENTS
The Common, Amherst College’s award-winning literary magazine, announces the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors: Kate Nintzel, Lee Oglesby and Tara Safronoff. Willie Perdomo, The Common’s former Interviews Editor, will join the magazine’s Editorial Board.
The Common, Amherst College’s award-winning literary magazine, announces the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors: Kate Nintzel, Lee Oglesby and Tara Safronoff. Willie Perdomo, The Common’s former Interviews Editor, will join the magazine’s Editorial Board.
February 16, 2022
Excerpt: Intimacies
By KATIE KITAMURA This piece is excerpted from Intimacies by Katie Kitamura, a guest at Amherst College’s 2022 LitFest! Click here to purchase. 1. I arrived in The Hague with a one-year contract at the Court and very little else. In those early days when the city was a stranger to me, I rode the
February 14, 2022
Language Is a Living Substance: An Interview with Abdelmajid Haouasse
ABDELMAJID HAOUASSE
Similes and metaphors stem from an awareness that the role of language in short stories is not only to communicate information but to intensify it and create a semantic charge. The power of the story is not in its narrative, but in the way it is formulated and presented.
Similes and metaphors stem from an awareness that the role of language in short stories is not only to communicate information but to intensify it and create a semantic charge. The power of the story is not in its narrative, but in the way it is formulated and presented.
February 13, 2022
Announcing LitFest 2022
We hope you’ll join us virtually for the seventh annual LitFest, hosted in conjunction with Amherst College. This year’s lineup includes Pulitzer Prize winners Natalie Diaz and Viet Thanh Nguyen; 2021 National Book Award nominees Katie Kitamura and Elizabeth McCracken; and journalists Vann Newkirk and David Graham.
February 11, 2022
Podcast: Mona Kareem on “Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait”
MONA KAREEM
Mona Kareem speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait,” which appears in a portfolio of writing from the Arabian Gulf, in The Common’s fall issue.
Mona Kareem speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait,” which appears in a portfolio of writing from the Arabian Gulf, in The Common’s fall issue.
February 9, 2022
In Absence of Mourning
NATALIA MAGNANI
It had been fifteen years since my family left for the US, but my grandparents’ room in Gomel had not changed. I sat on the same Soviet-era sofa, holding the same replica of Cheburashka, my childhood-favorite TV character. The occasion of my visit had prompted Dedushka, my Belarusian grandpa, to take me to the village where he was born...
It had been fifteen years since my family left for the US, but my grandparents’ room in Gomel had not changed. I sat on the same Soviet-era sofa, holding the same replica of Cheburashka, my childhood-favorite TV character. The occasion of my visit had prompted Dedushka, my Belarusian grandpa, to take me to the village where he was born...
February 8, 2022
Blood Feast: Translating the Troubled Life and Troubling Work of Malika Moustadraf
ALICE GUTHRIE
This slim volume is but a snapshot of a gifted maverick writer in her ascendancy, creatively going from strength to strength even as her health deteriorated during the final weeks before her death. Had her life not been tragically cut short, Moustadraf would undoubtedly have gone on to reach great artistic heights.
This slim volume is but a snapshot of a gifted maverick writer in her ascendancy, creatively going from strength to strength even as her health deteriorated during the final weeks before her death. Had her life not been tragically cut short, Moustadraf would undoubtedly have gone on to reach great artistic heights.
February 4, 2022
Friday Reads: February 2022
ELLY HONG
This round of Friday Reads features recommendations from three of our online contributors: Carolyn Oliver, author of “Magic Mile;” Rajosik Mitra, author of “Cockroach;” and Jennifer Shyue, translator of “The Eclipse” and author of “Mother’s Tongue.”
This round of Friday Reads features recommendations from three of our online contributors: Carolyn Oliver, author of “Magic Mile;” Rajosik Mitra, author of “Cockroach;” and Jennifer Shyue, translator of “The Eclipse” and author of “Mother’s Tongue.”
February 3, 2022
Translation: Ġgantija II
IMMANUEL MIFSUD
Stone reminds you of the blue sea — / that sea you crossed; the walk you walked / on the white rocks spreading before you.
Stone reminds you of the blue sea — / that sea you crossed; the walk you walked / on the white rocks spreading before you.
