Features & Reviews
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Queer Mormon Joy Beyond the Fairy Tale: AJ Romriell’s Wolf Act
…the sacred and the profane are hidden in each other’s disguises, like Red Riding Hood’s Granny with her suspiciously sharp teeth.
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Endless Leisure: Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence
Under the right eyes, everything that Torres touches turns to gold.
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Love and Technology in the Time of Climate Change: A Conversation with Anita Felicelli
…regardless of what part of the coast you land on, an atmosphere of limitlessness pervades.
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We Are Not Free: A Conversation with Roberto Carlos Garcia
We also know that by disrupting and challenging the language, or dismantling the language, we can, hopefully, dismantle white supremacy.
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No One Gets off Scot-Free: Jill McCorkle’s Old Crimes
This is such a powerful manifestation of fiction: as writers, much as we make stuff up, we are always writing someone’s story.
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From Alternative Facts to Political Fictions: A Conversation with Emily Greenberg
We’re always imposing our own subjectivity. Perfect empathy is unattainable.
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Sketch Book Review: Three Books About Rivers
When passionate individuals like these authors put pen to paper, they have the opportunity to create real change.
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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.