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This summer, Iris Mogul – a junior at a Miami high school – found out that she wouldn’t be able to take an AP African American…

Upon her Play being returned to her, stained with ClaretWelcome, dear Wanderer, once more!Thrice welcome to thy native…

An interviewer for the London Sunday Times once praised the acclaimed Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau for breathing some…

Several years ago, I paid a friend to read a boring book about British television so I could pretend to my Channel 4 bosses…

The narrator of your story “Bruises” is a former British soldier who fought in Iraq. He is clearly suffering from P.T.S.D.,…

It’s sometimes the fate of a single city to epitomise an era: Berlin in the 1920s, perhaps, or London in the 1960s. So which…

It’s 1pm on a Sunday in the suburbs of Chennai, and I’m at home, nestled within the sounds that mid-afternoon brings with it:…

I hear Hawaii’s mythologies in the voice of Grams. Now gone for nearly as much of my life as she was a part of it, Grams wove…

Spark was not much of a magazine. Handwritten and mimeographed secretly with a primitive machine at a sulfuric-acid plant in a…

What are some of the things humans can do that other animals can’t? Humans can count, humans can read, humans can reason. These…

Cicero, the Roman orator and politician of the first century B.C.E., spoke up over and over again—while stamping his feet for…

In his 1953 novel, Bring the Jubilee, Ward Moore imagined an alternative history in which General Lee won the battle of…