It was when I was in grad school that I first started wanting essays to be performative, probably because that's when I first got the l...

Philip Graham: I’m currently reading Citizen: An American Lyric , by Claudia Rankine.  It was one of this year’s National Book Award final...

I. My mother wanted eight babies. She gave birth to seven. Despite this, I lived inside a household that pretended the process of...

When I sent out a call for visual reviews of essays in the weeks before Christmas, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I asked contrib...

Arguing With My Husband, Or The Multimedia Essay as Multicultural Performance, Part 1 In Nigerian boarding school my husband’s peers nick...

Kristen Iversen - Full Body Burden: Growing Up In the Shadow of Rocky Flats "The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our...

“In the Judaeo-Christian tradition, Noah’s Ark was the first ordered assembly of animals and man. The assembly now is over.”            ...