The Kenyon Review Online interviews Editor in Chief Jennifer Acker about The Common and its new online features.
The Kenyon Review (2014)
April 3, 2014
News and Events
Isabel Meyers
Beyond the Margins (2014)
April 3, 2014
News and Events
Beyond the Margins names The Common as a “hearty, high quality, aesthetically traditional lit mag.”
The Best American Nonrequired Reading
April 3, 2014
News and Events
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014, ed. Dave Eggers, named Rolf Potts and Cedar Van Tassel’s “The Misadventures of Wenamun” as Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2013.
Qadita.net (2014)
April 3, 2014
News and Events
Qadita.net, an Arabic contemporary literature and arts website, writes a feature on Issue 06 contributor Hisham Bustani’s collaboration with The Common.
Rethinking Utopia: An Interview with Rich Benjamin
April 1, 2014
Interviews
MELODY NIXON interviews RICH BENJAMIN
Rich Benjamin is a journalist-adventurer and the author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey To The Heart Of White America. He is a senior fellow at the think tank Demos in New York City, and a frequent commentator on NPR, Fox News, The New York Times and many other media outlets. Melody Nixon caught up with Rich Benjamin this spring, at his office overlooking the Flatiron building in Manhattan.
Language as the Homeland: An Interview with Eleanor Stanford
March 4, 2014
Interviews
ZINZI CLEMMONS interviews ELEANOR STANFORD
Eleanor Stanford is the author of the memoir História, História: Two Years in the Cape Verde Islands, and of a poetry collection, The Book of Sleep. Stanford’s essay “Geology Primer (Fogo, Cape Verde)” was published in Issue No. 06 of The Common. Fellow Philadelphian Zinzi Clemmons chatted with Stanford about poetic form, the importance of language, and ways to feel at home in the world.
On Balancing the Visual and the Sonic: An Interview with Joshua Mehigan
February 4, 2014
Interviews
S. TREMAINE NELSON interviews JOSHUA MEHIGAN
Joshua Mehigan, whose poems “How Strange, How Sweet” and “Believe It” appear in Issue 06 of The Common, was born and raised in upstate New York. His poems have been published in a variety of journals and magazines, including Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, The New Republic, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and The New York Times. His most recent book, The Optimist, was published in 2004 by the Ohio University Press and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prive. His second book, Accepting the Disaster, is forthcoming in July 2014 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. The exchange below took place over email while Winter Storm Janus snarled the streets of New York City.
NEA Art Works Grant (2014)
January 15, 2014
News and Events
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded The Common a 2014 Art Works Grant in the magazine’s first year of eligibility.
Explosive Possibilities: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on Writing and Kenya
January 14, 2014
Interviews
ZINZI CLEMMONS interviews YVONNE ADHIAMBO OWUOR
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is the recipient of the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story “Weight of Whispers.” She is the author of the forthcoming novel, Dust (Knopf, January 2014), an excerpt of which was published in Issue No. 06 of The Common. While in South Africa Zinzi Clemmons talked with Kenyan-based Owuor about “deadlines as flexible soul mates,” lessons in artistic humility, consulting “the passing herdsmen” on the art of reading the landscape, and the up-and-coming literary world of Kenya.
Sawt al-Watan (2013)
November 20, 2013
News and Events
Sawt al-Watan, a major Palestinian news website, shares The Common‘s vision and work with Hisham Bustani’s writings.
