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What Superheroes Teach Us

UW English professor Ramzi Fawaz shows how comic-book mutants can help readers make sense of cultural differences.

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The Roaring Twenties

Sarah Thankam Mathews ’17’s All This Could Be Different explores the challenges of young adulthood in a tumultuous world.

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From Captives to Community

In Descendant, Kern Jackson MA’91 documents the discovery of the last illegal slave ship and the people who never forgot it.

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Sisterhood, Revisited

Novelist Hanna Halperin MFA’16 lays bare the shared experiences that unite long-divided paths.

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A Storybook Romance

Kevin Henkes x’83 and Laura Dronzek ’82, MFA’93 met at UW–Madison, married, and now make magic together in children’s literature.

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Black Girl Calls Home

During her time in the UW’s First Wave program, Mans toured internationally as a slam poet and released her first book. Redens Desrosiers As a poet in Newark, New Jersey, Jasmine Mans ’15 is surrounded by a vibrant artistic community. “The culture of art is…

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Aliens among Us

According to this UFO researcher, the extraterrestrials aren’t coming. They’re already here.

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Poetry of the Moment

In timely new collections, married UW professors Cherene Sherrard and Amaud Jamaul Johnson explore Black identity and struggle.

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Literary Sunshine

Emma Straub MFA’08 warmly explores family life in her new novel, "All Adults Here."

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Finding Family Secrets

Anika Fajardo ’97 searches for her long-lost father in the memoir Magical Realism for Non-Believers.

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An Exercise in Grief

Erin Lee Carr ’10 grapples with the legacy of her father, the brilliant but troubled New York Times journalist David Carr.

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Secrets of The Glass Forest

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Cynthia Fisher Swanson ’87 of Denver has published her second book, The Glass Forest. The literary suspense novel takes place in the 1960s, when 21-year-old Angie Glass is living a picturesque life in her Wisconsin hometown with her husband,…

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Nancy Baym

Nancy Baym ’86 studies the close connection between musicians and audiences.