Features & Reviews
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Sketch Book Reviews: What An Owl Knows
When things in the world feel particularly scary of hopeless, I find it very difficult to read books about humans.
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The First Book: Del Sandeen
I’m writing to the reader who loves characters as much as plot, and who understands that horror encompasses much more than just things that go bump in the night.
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Preparing for Flight: Yaccaira Salvatierra’s Sons of Salt
Salvatierra’s poems embody the spirit of reclamation, reminding us to ask the wind and water to carry us, to remember our potential for flight.
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The Truth About Phantom Characters: A Conversation with Cal Louise Phoenix
… if my people can survive, I can too. Resiliency and survivalism are in my bones.
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“ew, don’t use my sound ever again”: On Tyranny and Poupeh Missaghi’s Sound Museum
Power is the end in itself, not a means to justice.
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It Seemed Important for Me to Figure It Out: An Interview with Ruben Quesada
I wanted to address all the things that I was witness to or that may have informed my understanding of loss.
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Mythology, Etymology, and the Hard Work of Living: A Conversation with torrin a. greathouse
I don’t believe one can be a good poet while being uncritical of the English language
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Giving New Life to Indian Literature: Aruni Kashyap’s The Way You Want to Be Loved
Kashyap’s stories, told through the accounts of the Assamese student, writer, researcher, and villager, made me see Assam on its own terms, and the rest of the world through the eyes of Assam.
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Making It Weird: A Conversation with Laura van den Berg
What would my life have been like if I never discovered fiction, never discovered storytelling, never learned to tell my own story?
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A Silver Bowl of Stars: Blas Falconer’s Rara Avis
Whether “It’s a [family] story we don’t like / to tell” or the shifting of roles and a meditation on death “In the book we are reading together,” wisdom closes its hand over sentiment.
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Keep the Pressure on the Present: A Conversation with Jody Hobbs Hesler
There’s only so much support you can have and really truly feel like you’ve been relieved of a set of responsibilities.
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Danger Down Under: Fiona McFarlane’s Highway Thirteen
According to a website that calculates such things, the furthest city on the globe from my hometown in New York is Perth. Perth—I’ve heard of Perth.