Author name: Evelyn Gill

Last week, more than 5,000 writers and publishers from across the world pledged not to work with “Israeli cultural institutions that are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians.” The pledge may be the biggest single act of cultural boycott since the mobilization against apartheid South Africa. The list of […]

But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away.–Nick Carraway, on closing his relationship with Jordan Baker* Article continues after advertisement Can a book change a landscape? If ever a book did, it was The Great Gatsby. And if The Great Gatsby

There is an invisible abundance of writing assignments that come with leading a nonprofit literary arts organization, including crafting introductions to readings and conversations, and the authors featured in them. During the ten plus years I helmed a national poetry institution, I likely wrote close to 100 of them—some short on word count and light

Dogeaters wasn’t just the first Filipino American novel I ever read; it was the first work of literary fiction I picked up on my own outside of a classroom. I was in my mid-twenties. I had already flunked out of college twice, having spent exponentially more time behind turntables, picking street fights, and stumbling out

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