Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik

Raised on the northern bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, acclaimed author Rolando Hinojosa attended Mexican and American schools as a child and has lived in both cultures throughout his life. &q …

As part of the Works Progress Administration during the Depression, two women interviewers, Lou Sage Batchen and Annette Hesch Thorp, gathered women’s stories or cuentos from many native ancianas to …

In an age when telling the wrong joke or using the wrong pronoun can cost you your career, Quillette magazine – founded in 2015 by Australian-based journalist Claire Lehmann – has provided a forum fo …

For Jasminne Mendez, pericardial effusion and pericarditis are not just an abnormal accumulation of fluid and increased inflammation around the heart. It’s what happens "when you stifle the tear …

Graduation is a magical time-it is liberating and petrifying in equal measure. It is tradition to invite a noted personality to deliver an address that can rouse the students to step into the real wo …

As a teenager, long before Enriqueta Vasquez became a writer and activist, she wrote her first letter to complain against the injustice she saw around her while growing up in the Southwest. Why was s …

Joaquin Colon (1896-1964) was a Puerto Rican activist and writer who, in his later years, felt compelled to recount the history of the first large wave of Puerto Rican immigrants making a life for th …

Corporations are crucial to society’s well-being. Yet, not many have chosen to adapt themselves to the expectations of employees and society at large in the times in which we live. In Rethinc, Prof. …

In this picaresque story of adventure, David Greene captures an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.A journalist for National Public Radio in the US, David Greene decides to travel t …

In the library of a country house in Nottinghamshire, Vivian is writing an article about the importance of lying, when he is interrupted by Cyril, who tries to tempt him away, but instead is drawn in …