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Indie Spotlight: February 2026 for The Oxford Affair by Lynne Kaufman
Directing the summer travel-study program for UC Berkeley is indeed a dream job, but like any experience, it can get overly familiar. Writing this novel gave me the gift of seeing this magical place with new eyes. I get to share my insider’s knowledge of Oxford custom and lore and create a fictional version of myself who solves a mystery while unexpectedly falling in love.
Behind the Story: 'I Before E' for The Elba Trilogy by Drew Banks
The phrase echoes the familiar English spelling rule—“i before e, except after c”—but it also subtly raises questions about language, pronunciation, and cultural belonging. For an Italian immigrant family navigating life in America, even the pronunciation of a single letter can hint at deeper tensions around assimilation and identity.
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Slate
Society for US Intellectual History
The Ballad World of Anna Gordon: Song and the Making of History Across the Atlantic World by Ruth Perry
To cultural theorists, the fact that Anna Gordon’s ballads had been learned orally in childhood from living sources descending from high antiquity played into the controversy launched by Ossian. It saw the Scottish range against English scholars respectively defending and attacking the primacy of oral over written and printed sources. To ballad collectors they were content for new books—a chance to publish and make some money. To singers and listeners from that day to this, they were wonderful stories sung to mesmerizing tunes.
A Category Mistake: Misrecognizing the Function of Black Dialect in the Work of a White Writer by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
The erroneous assumption that Twain, like most of his white peers, was using Black dialect as a source of humor has led readers and critics to misrecognize what he was trying to do in his most famous novel: criticize a morally bankrupt society that dismisses the most admirable man in it as not even human. Jim has been hiding in plain sight. The first Black father in a novel by a white male American author, Jim has been disparaged and demeaned by many critics for more than a century. Both Jim and Twain deserve better. So do we.