What is “creative nonfiction,” exactly? Isn’t the term an oxymoron? Creative writers—playwrights, poets, novelists—are people who make stuff up. Which means that the basic definition of “nonfiction writer” is a writer who doesn’t make stuff up, or is not supposed to make stuff up. If nonfiction writers are “creative” in the sense that poets and novelists are creative, if what they write is partly make-believe, are they still writing nonfiction?

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For more than four decades, Jorie Graham’s poetry has documented the complicated, multidimensional, ever more uncertain sallies of human perception into the bristling presence of trees, birds, streams. Virginia Woolf followed Mrs. Dalloway and others over the course of 24 hours in London. Graham, whose lines are Woolf-like in their walks about the page, tracks a minute in the life of a raven. Her forays also lead her to strangers, art, angels—and recent poems have ventured to speak in the uncanny idioms of artificial intelligence and machines. The free play of her attention gives rise to...

On March 30th, Professor Bhabha delivered a keynote lecture at the Vatican, as a part of the Papal Summit of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on “Colonization, Decolonization and Neocolonialism from the Perspective of Justice and the Common Good.”

The Holy Father Pope Francis invited judges, public servants, and leading scholars to attend the Papal Summit to address justice and the common good in the African and American contexts. He invited reflections on contemporary tragedies of hunger and famine, war and terror, catastrophic migrations, displacement,...

Carly Yingst has been invited to join the Society of Fellows at the Rare Book School (UVA) as a Junior Fellow next year. This non-residential fellowship will enable them to study advanced methods in the research and teaching of bibliography, book history, material culture, while also bringing critical conversations about the book, print, and other media to faculty, staff, and students at their home institution.