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The “Inevitable Sadness” of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Fiction

Cynthia Wong
Arts & Culture, Books
On a damp October day in 2006, I followed Kazuo Ishiguro and my 10-year-old daughter Grace to a back table at a bustling cafe in London for an interview. As Ishiguro answered my questions, he explained how he...

“The Essay is the Genre of Presence”: An Interview with Nicole B. Wallack

Nicole B. Wallack
Arts & Culture
Nicole B. Wallack, Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University, knows her way around the essay. Her new book, Crafting Presence, not only shows instructors how to teach writing via...

I’m a Librarian Who Banned a Book. Here’s Why.

Scott DiMarco
Arts & Culture
Since 1982, over 11,000 books have been challenged by individuals seeking to have them banned from schools or libraries. In the library world, access to information is a human right, not to be tampered with...

Alan Ziegler on the Origins of the Prose Poem

Alan Ziegler
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, History
Alan Ziegler, award-winning author of several books of short prose, describes the history of this intriguing literary form, his preferred style.

The Best “Smart” Beach Reads of 2014: Edition #1

Kaitlin Solimine
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Psychology
How to know what pages this summer make the sunscreen-slathered cut and which will stay on bookshelves? Hippo Reads is here to make recommendations for the smartest, and most engaging, summer reads in arts, literature, and psychology.

Walk This Way: How Walking Increases Empathy and Awareness

Kaitlin Solimine
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
In May 1862, The Atlantic Monthly posthumously published Henry David Thoreau’s seminal essay, “Walking.” Thoreau’s central premise seemed that humanity should experience nature “as an inhabitant”...

Cat Named Sobaka

Josip Novakovich
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
A Hippo Reads Exclusive Reprint, Courtesy of Prairie Schooner (winner of The Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award) An Essay and Fable On the coldest day of the year, in St. Petersburg, Russia, as my...

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