Posts by Nora Dolliver

"My research focuses on writers who, through silence and the negative space, subvert official narratives on the past, and dominant ideas about passive victimhood, which can be instrumentalized to justify new violence."

In the early 20th century, five libraries located on the cramped Lower East Side operated rooftop reading rooms for children during the summer months.

Translation, writes Edith Grossman in Why Translation Matters, “permits us to savor the transformation of the foreign into the familiar and for a brief time to live outside our own skins, our own preconceptions and misconceptions."