Features & Reviews
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The First Book: Eduardo Martínez-Leyva
Without realizing it, in those years when I wasn’t actively writing, I reflected, processed, grieved, and learned to be kind to myself.
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The Comic Form, Grief Time, and Homecoming in Reverse: A Conversation with Kay Sohini
I’m not that optimistic. But I guess without hope, what else do we have, right?
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An Unsentimental Look at the ’90s: Gina Tron’s Suspect
Even her bad decisions, like lashing out at her bullies, are ones that feel relatable, if things were just a little different.
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Our Bodies are Bodies and Our Bones Are Bones: A Conversation with Amanda Hawkins
How long would I cry if I just let it happen? How long would I need to mourn if I did not cut that mourning short?
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Echoes in the Gallery: Andy Young’s Museum of the Soon to Depart
…Young transforms these cities into an enigmatic museum, with galleries that reach back through time to the very essence of dust.
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The Vastness of What We Don’t See: A Conversation with Oluwaseun Olayiwola
While I am a poet who is concerned with place, imaginative nowheres are where I think a poem begins.
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“It’d Be the Last Great Punk Song”: On ¡PÓNK! by Marcus Clayton
Punk is not safe, but neither is the world if you are Black or brown.
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Feral Feminisms in Noir: A Conversation with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
…Intuition and empathy are central methods of communication when we look to understand others and to put ourselves in others’ positions.
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The First Book: Karissa Chen
Despite the many periods of self-doubt I had, the stretches where I felt I would never write anything good again—I would always eventually return to my desk, because I wouldn’t let myself give up.
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Saints, Bodies, and Machines: A Conversation with Erika Swyler
When we push societal roles aside, what’s left between parents and children is the desire to both care and to be cared for.
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Writing in the Aftermath: Paul Rousseau’s Friendly Fire
It wasn’t until I was older and started hunting with my father that I began to understand the implications of proximity to gunfire.
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Open to the World: A Conversation with Irvin Weathersby Jr.
You can walk around with your eyes closed, but if you do decide to open them and embrace the world around you, you can often be injured by what you see.