The Triumph of Achilles: Louise Glück’s Poetry by Kirill M. Korchagin

“…Louise Glück is also Professor (Adjunct) of English, Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence at Yale University and has previously won the Pulitzer prize (1993), Bollingen Prize (2001), National Book Award (2014) and National Humanities Medal (2015), among others. …”
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“Indisputably Available”: The Texture—Gendered, Sexual, Violent—of James Baldwin’s Southern Silences by Ed Pavlić

“…Spurred on by Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys (2019), which is set in Tallahassee, FL, during the 1950s and 1960s, this essay presents a close-up look at James Baldwin’s visit to Tallahassee in May 1960. …”

The Lost Apple Plays: Performing Operation Pedro Pan by Kimberly del Busto Ramírez

“…The Lost Apple Plays investigates how memory, identity formation, nationhood, citizenship, and migration have been dramatized through these performances. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, director/actor/playwright Mario Ernesto Sánchez, singers Willy Chirino and Lissette, performance artist Ana Mendieta, sculptor María Brito, prolific dramatist Eduardo Machado, and new playwright Melinda López compose a Cuba that can be neither lost nor recovered for Pedro Pans, but remains an impenetrable illusion like the restless, liminal condition of lifelong exile.…”
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The Influence of Fathers on Family and Society by Isra Hasan Jassim

“…In some of the novels, the father figure represents a moral guide, such as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). In this novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize, a father of two children influences his son and daughter positively. …”
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Unknown Harper Lee by Denis V. Zakharov

“…The author received a Pulitzer prize for it and many other honors and awards. …”
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“The Map-makers’ Colors”: Maps in Twentieth-Century American Poetry in English by Adele J. Haft

“…As the opening poem of her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection (1955), “The Map” continues to inspire other poets to critique the map’s spatial representation in terms of physical geography and intimacy, time and scale, politics and race, as well as science, art, and exploration. …”
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