“A Game of Chance You Can Choose to Play or Not”: On Lauren Russell’s A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close
[Russell] creates breathing room by breaking genre expectations, so that everything invisible swoops into stark relief.
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“We are so often strangers to ourselves”: A Conversation with Jordan Windholz
There is only so much you can tell your children about the reality of the world. So, to navigate that necessary withholding, we tell stories.
A Search for Country and Identity in Ayokunle Falomo’s Autobiomythography Of
It is Falomo’s legacy of rebirth, in rich, outstanding text, that there are things which must burn in order to be birthed anew
Clawing Our Way Toward Delight: A Conversation with Lyndsay Rush
This is not a lifetime achievement, it’s just my first collection of some poems that I love. And hopefully, there will be more.
On Inheritance: Maureen Sun’s The Sisters K
By recasting this Slavophile opus as a critique of patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy, with a grand sense of philosophical rigor, Sun models anti-imperial engagement with the Russian canon.
Chasing the Afterlife: A Conversation with Susan L. Leary
What does it mean to live a life? What does it mean to live a good life?
“Simply tell the story”: A VOA Mini-interview with Nikkya Hargrove
...family relationships can and do change, and those we feel “kin” to can also change.
Doing the Work of Remembering and Naming: A Conversation with Keiko Lane
I thought I was writing an essay, and then people kept showing up in my memory and talking and demanding to be included.
Please Please Please: Casey McQuiston’s The Pairing
Few romance novels hit such emotional and sensual highs with the leads physically apart; fewer still so elegantly capture the fluid contours of gender and desire.
Excavating Land, One Ancestor at a Time: A Conversation with Susan A. Brewer
The people keeping the records tend to have authority, and they tend to have an agenda, so they’re going to portray things in a way that fits their agenda.
Slant Panes of Light: Emilie Menzel’s The Girl Who Became a Rabbit
Meaning is fleeting. Meaning is self-made.