Voices: In Utah, diverse literature should be celebrated with the same vigor as the Olympics The Games bring together athletes who push the boundaries of human performance, and the humanities should similarly strive for international excellence, balancing tradition with innovation. By Scott Black and Robert Carson | For The Salt Lake Tribune | Sep. 3, […]
Read MoreBruce Bastian was a longtime supporter of the Tanner Humanities Center and his partnership was instrumental in furthering the center’s mission to provide public outreach and educational enrichment to the University campus and the broader community. The B.W. Bastian Foundation enabled the Tanner Humanities Center to host prominent LGBTQ+ authors and scholars, expanding opportunities for […]
Read MoreIf you were me in March 2020, you were looking for the biggest book left on your shelves to help you cope with the news and the newness of online teaching and the dishes and the too-small square footage of your apartment, every day silent, every day filled with noise. And if you were me […]
Read MoreLaToya Ruby Frazier believes life is not to be “belittled or squandered”— both one’s own life and the lives of others. The first work of Frazier’s I encountered was “The Notion of Family,” I felt this commitment then (the same is true for her body of work at large), as I did again […]
Read MoreThe world will be what we make it. David Wallace-Wells is not a writer known for his optimism; his book, after all, is called, “The Uninhabitable Earth.” He is known for a bluntness sometimes read as alarmist, a direct engagement with the definite and potential harms climate change will impose that often feels pessimistic, almost […]
Read MoreThe first story I ever read by Carmen Maria Machado was not “The Husband Stitch” or “Especially Heinous.” It was not her excellent and essential memoir “In the Dream House,” a book I’ve read and re-read and been in love with and also a little bit angry at for how good it is. It was […]
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