Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The American Scholar

    The Freedom in Confinement

    Jun 01, 2020 2 minutes
    LANGDON HAMMER

    ONE OF OUR PRIME REASONS for reading prose fiction is to get outside, to travel, and to learn about how people think and feel who are different from us. The familiar defense of the novel as an education in empathy and otherness follows from this, as does the

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The American Scholar

    The American Scholar6 min read
    Good Vibrations
    In the Mojave Desert of southeastern California, along a narrow two-lane road that runs through the small town of Landers, a white dome glimmers amid the desolate landscape. From a distance, it seems like a trick of the eye. Up close, it resembles a
    The American Scholar7 min read
    Bubble Girl
    I’m still surprised that no one ever told me about the incubator baby kidnapping. To be fair, it happened 63 years before I was born, but it also happened half a block from where I was born, and little Marian Bleakley was perhaps the most famous baby
    The American Scholar4 min read
    We've Gone Mainstream
    Marie Arana’s sprawling portrait of Latinos in the United States is rich and nuanced in its depiction of the diversity of “the least understood minority.” Yet LatinoLand is regrettably old-fashioned and out-of-date. For starters, Hispanics aren’t rea

    Related Books & Audiobooks