Outposts

September 2017

Congregating at Commonplace

By Reid Bartholomew

In midtown Oklahoma City, independent businesses are thriving off of the community’s desire for a new approach to urban living. Emerging from that environment, Commonplace Books sits in a brick build...
May 2017

American Writers Museum Launches in Chicago

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Photo courtesy of the American Writers Museum The new American Writers Museum, opening this May in Chicago, celebrates American literature in a lively, interactive space that honors America’s writers...
March 2017

Politics & Prose

By Bridey Heing

Washington, DC, is a city that holds culture and the arts close to its heart. When the stereotypes and outside-the-beltway misconceptions about what this city is—political infighting, opportunistic s...
January 2017

Stockholm Literature . . . and Art

By Anna Paterson

Skeppsholmen Island in central Stockholm, home of Moderna Museet where the Stockholm Literature festival takes place. Photo: Routes North/www.routesnorth.com As literary events go, Stockholm Literatu...
November 2016

The Brooklyn Book Festival

By Laura Hernandez

Photos by Laura Hernandez. Celebrating its eleventh year, the Brooklyn Book Festival hosts writers from around the world and highlights the literary landscape in a two-day book extravaganza. The festi...
September 2016

Illiterati Café and Bookstore

By David Joshua Jennings

In the foothills of the Himalayas, a few hundred meters below the Dalai Lama’s temple in Dharamshala, on a quiet, winding, monsoon-eroded road next to a motorcycle garage, sits the bookstore/café Illi...
May 2016

Entering Apartheid’s History in Johannesburg

By Laura Hernandez

Photos by Laura Hernandez Located in bustling Johannesburg, South Africa, the Apartheid Museum traces segregation along with the diversity of its people. As they enter, visitors experience a split en...
March 2016

Malvern Books: Reading Broadly in Austin

By Jen Rickard Blair

The “Keep Austin Weird” adage has grown to mean something unique among many Austinites—it’s long been a celebration of creative resistance, a clash between economic growth and eccentricity. In recent...
January 2016

Outpost: The Port Eliot Festival

By Violet Wilson

Photo courtesy of the Port Eliot Festival Deep in the Cornish countryside, in the tiny village of St Germans, sits the house and estate of Port Eliot. A plot of land Napoleon himself claimed to be th...