literature

Reads
Rucy Cui and D.M. Spratley sit side by side on stage, speaking into microphones.

Second Stegner Fellow reading explores poignancy and joy

Shayla Fitzsimmons-Call
  •  
Nov. 10, 2024
Reads
Nichole Nomura (left) and Sarah Levine (right) pose before their talk,

Mapping the shifting canon: Stanford researchers use data to rethink English education

Ellen Yang
  •  
Oct. 31, 2024
Campus Life
Photo of Pigott Hall

‘Everything changed’: How professors are teaching about the Israel-Gaza war

Naomi Breuer
  •  
Oct. 23, 2024
Magazine
Old copies of "Sequoia" literary magazine are taped to a charcoal picture of a tree.

What’s in a ‘little’ magazine? ’70s lit mag Sequoia had something special

Cate Burtner
  •  
June 25, 2024
The Grind
Graphic of a Greek figure on the right with indecipherable writing on left with 'TTYL' in the middle, set against a beige background.

TTYL: What ‘The Giver’ gives

Sonnet Xu
  •  
May 30, 2024
Reads
A graphic depicting globe spinning on top of an open book and a person lays staring into the book.

World of Words: ‘Breath, Eyes, Memory’ is a reckoning

Breanna Burke
  •  
April 10, 2024
The Grind
A silhouette of the author in front of a window, with trees behind the glass.

Ben’s Column: A quick complaint

Benjamin Marra
  •  
Feb. 21, 2024
Reads
Front desk of Florence Moore Hall.

SLE challenges the boundaries of the Western canon

Miriam Awan
  •  
Jan. 26, 2024
Reads
An author delivering a talk in the Stanford Humanities Center.

Pulitzer Prize winner reimagines Netanyahu’s trek to America

George Porteous
  •  
Jan. 19, 2024
The Grind
Blue flowers growing in grass.

‘The Literature of the Absurd’: Sci-Fi’s Beckett

Doran Goldman
  •  
May 26, 2023
Reads
Stegner Fellows Christell Victoria Roach (above, left) and Rabia Saeed (right) sit next to each others in chairs. they are in front of the large windows of the Mackenzie room, lit by the natural light of the evening.

Finding authenticity and community in writing at the final Stegner Fellow reading

Kristofer Nino
  •  
May 18, 2023
Reads
"Lately in Literature with Leyla Yilmaz" text against a background of books.

Lately in Literature: Ronan Hession’s ‘Panenka’ is a Week 5 pick-me-up novella

Leyla Yilmaz
  •  
May 1, 2023
The Grind
A pair of yellowish boots.

‘The Literature of the Absurd’: Nothing to be done

Doran Goldman
  •  
April 27, 2023
Reads
A graphic of three Stegner Fellows.

Q&A: Stanford’s emerging poets on the arts of language and teaching

Lera Kalinina
  •  
April 6, 2023
The Grind
fingers on the pages of a book

Reflections on Voltaire’s ‘Candide’: A critique on love and human nature

Lara Seyahi
  •  
April 4, 2023
Reads
Pictures, arranged in a downwards semi circle of all the women writers mentioned in the article with the title :"Women writers at Stanford. Atop a light pink background with a graphic of women of color hugging each other in the middle.

Celebrating women writers from Stanford, then and now

Grace Wong
  •  
March 16, 2023
The Grind
Picture of a leafless tree at night

‘The Literature of the Absurd’: A leafless tree

Doran Goldman
  •  
March 13, 2023
Reads
Over a faint backdrop of open books, the text: "lately in LITERATURE with Leyla Yilmaz." "Literature" is stylized in multiple fonts over red, green, and pink rectangles, as in a collage made from magazines.

Lately in Literature: Grieving art in Rebecca Makkai’s ‘The Great Believers’

Leyla Yilmaz
  •  
March 7, 2023
The Grind
Cloudy day in Berlin. Movie theater in the bottom right. An observation tower rises in the center.

‘A Linguaphile’s Diaries’: Entry 1

Julia Lasiota
  •  
March 2, 2023
Reads
Over a faint backdrop of open books, the text: "lately in LITERATURE with Leyla Yilmaz." "Literature" is stylized in multiple fonts over red, green, and pink rectangles, as in a collage made from magazines.

Lately in literature: ‘Toy Story’ meets social commentary in Dorothy Tse’s ‘Owlish’

Leyla Yilmaz
  •  
Feb. 21, 2023
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