Three Poems
Lines on landscape and battlefield.
By Susana Roberts
Essays
Valuing the Liberal Arts
Can we find a better way to estimate the benefits of a broad education?
By Jonathan Giuffrida
Essays
What Social Class and Education Mean To Me
My life in New York City is the one I've chosen to live, but still I don't always feel it's mine.
By Kristin Oakley
Issue 6
Review: No Book But the World
Leah Hager Cohen's fifth novel is a meditation on education—particularly, a child’s path out of the fog of innocence.
By Alison Hart
Criticism
Saving the Debt Generation
Ethan Earle of The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung NYC office weighs in on the student debt crisis in the run up to the 2016 elections.
By Ethan Earle
Interviews
“Making Space Around the Beloved”
Writer Maggie Nelson talks to TBQ about The Argonauts and the intellectual, erotic, and personal experiences of writing autobiography and putting language to motherhood.
By Jennifer Doerr
Interviews
The Future Is Their Project
TBQ interviews Kanya Balkrishna, co-founder of The Future Project, which "empowers the next generation to build the future, one dream at a time.”
By Rob Goodman
Blog
Three Poems from Shipbreaking
Poems from the debut collection acclaimed by poets and critics alike for its raw power and lyric artfulness.
By Robin Beth Schaer
Essays
Who’s Teaching University Classes — and Why it Matters
In recent years, there have been dramatic changes to who university and college administrations hire to teach classes. These changes, however, are detrimental to almost all of us—the 1% excluded.
By Rudy Fichtenbaum
Criticism
Review: Dear Committee Members
Julie Schumacher deftly transforms the humble letter of recommendation into a legitimate novelistic vehicle, says Keija Parssinen.
By Keija Parssinen
Issue 6
Get In Where You Fit In
Inside a DIY dance studio in a regenerating New Orleans.
By Katy Reckdahl