A novel that reminds you just how hyper-aware the world has become since the early 2010s—the war between genders, races, classes—and yet never loses sight of its timeless keystone: the strength of the bonds built by women, between women.
Review: The Sprawl by Jason Diamond
Diamond’s gaze, astute and compelling, is critical not only of the object of its inquiry but also of itself—of the hesitant, intricate love we have for the places that shaped us.
Review: Where Things Touch by Bahar Orang
Orang’s narrative is one that resists categorization; combining poetry, nonfiction, and philosophy, she brings forth a book that challenges the reader to meditate on the same questions and insights that drove her through the process of writing, searching, and living.
Review: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Into this summer of our discontent comes poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s first book of essays World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. Here is everything that’s been missing: family, food, travel, immersion in nature, the abundance…
Review: Being Lolita by Alisson Wood
Wood cunningly uses the reader’s knowledge so that, at decisive points, they either read with or against the grain of this text.
Review: Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante
Romalyn Ante’s debut collection presents an important and magical display of culture and perspective.
Home Army: A Letter To My Grandfather
The Polish word for “loss” is “utrata”—the “u” an empty vessel on the page, but a full, circular sound gathered at the front of the mouth: utrata as a kind of interior possession, a weight one carries.
Between Screens: How Netflix’s Élite Cured My Writer’s Block
The thing about a soap opera is that it reliably presses certain buttons. Someone onscreen goes through an outrageous, exaggerated version of events so that you can release feelings of your own subtler, realer experience.
Review: Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis
Axiom’s End sci-fi grapples with timely questions about our civilization while its hero grapples with aliens.
Between Screens: A Tent Of One’s Own
I feel like a child in an empty box. The walls are daydreams, and the world is anything.
Review: Want by Lynn Steger Strong
Review: Want by Lynn Steger Strong “‘You tired, runner girl?’ They all call me runner girl,” confesses the narrator in the opening of Lynn Steger Strong’s second novel, Want. Having lived a former life as a competitive distance runner, this…
Review: Clerk of the Dead by Alan Perry
Alan Perry’s poems do not only reckon with death or dying; they reckon with what it means to lose something.