Features & Reviews
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Pawn or Perpetrator: Nussaibah Younis’s Fundamentally
Younis, given her expertise in Iraqi politics and international affairs, offers welcome insight into a realm that is often only shown in snippets on the news.
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Send in the (Lesbian) Clowns: A Conversation with Kristen Arnett
Not everything is going to be funny to everybody, but a joke is going to be funny to at least one person, one time, at a specific point.
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Wrestling with Bears: A Conversation with Robert Ostrom
When I write, I don’t set out to preserve anything. I feel more like a conduit for whatever obsessions, conscious or not, are inside of me.
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“even as we all crowd the same body”: On Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa
To read Tetra Nova is to lean into nonlinear disorientation, flipping pages back and forth across time, scribbling in the margins of Vietnamese history.
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A Door Isn’t Just a Door: An Interview with Lucy Rose
I collect things like a magpie. I need to try everything.
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The First Book: Emily J. Smith
I wanted to explore how all these small indignities pile up for women over time and what an attempt at revenge might look like.
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Musings on the Lost Landscape: A Conversation with Lauren Markham
I feel increasingly in my life that action and feeling must be in a dance.
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Meaning in the Mundane: A. Kendra Greene’s No Less Strange or Wonderful
Loss and loneliness might be ubiquitous, but Greene reminds us of their infinite manifestations, each with a specificity so intimate we feel it like a punch to the gut.
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Of Black Milk, Black Bodies, and Accepting the Muchness in Lyrical Poetry: A Conversation with Tiana Clark
I’m learning to embrace my excess, and that gentle acceptance of my extraness waterfalls over into my work.
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A Memoir of Becoming and a Tribute to Joni Mitchell: A Conversation with Paul Lisicky
I write because I want to be in another place, out of my chair, looking up at trees.
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Of Tides, Stars, and other Motherly Forces: A Conversation with Stephanie Niu
…in the same way that words and sounds can rhyme, ideas and facts can also rhyme.
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Rich Kids Want to Die Too: Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized
…[BERLIN ATOMIZED is] about the internal and external chaos of growing up during globalization in an exploding, rootless world—one in which young people can’t tell who they are.