Features & Reviews
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The Pawns of History Arise: Tania James’s Loot
What happens to the artist when his society shatters? How does he keep alive the impetus to create after losing his family and place in the world?
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Songs of Reclamation: A Conversation with Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Music is massively important, and it’s layered in this book. It’s Bikini Kill. It’s Nirvana. But it’s also our spirit songs.
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Grief at the Verge of Revelation: A Conversation with Hala Alyan
What makes a life? Not even what makes a life worth living, but what makes a life a life.
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Finding A New “Happily Ever After”: Susan Ostrov’s Loveland
But for so many of us, love is “a puzzle with jig-sawed edges, and all we have are scattered, often missing, pieces of ourselves.
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On Seeking the Woman Within: A Conversation with Lyn Patterson
My story is just one, but our unique perspectives contribute to creating a richer and more complex picture of our collective humanity.
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How to Get Unstuck: A Conversation with Julia Phillips
When danger comes close to you, how do you react to it? How do you push back against it or cooperate with it?
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The Archive as Potter’s Field: Hannah Regel’s The Last Sane Woman
As the handwritten stories unfold, the lives of the two ceramicists come closer and closer.
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Tension Is Where the Heartbeat Is: A Conversation with Dorinda Wegener
Tension is where the heartbeat is. It’s the energy of it all, the electricity, the love.
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The First Book: Marcela Fuentes
I’m writing for anyone who likes a messy, drama-filled story with secrets and hilarious family problems, but also for my Latinx community.
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There’s Always a Little Light, a Glimmer of Hope: A Conversation with Annell López
I wanted to write characters who confront their humanity—all of it, but especially the ugly and visceral parts, and get to have the “release” we all deserve.
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The Great Man and The Wife: On Controlling the Narrative in Sarah Manguso’s Liars
Marriage and motherhood become like invasive species that coil around Jane’s career, leeching her of energy and creative drive.
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This is a Meditation on Survival: A Conversation with Emily Raboteau
These works of public art are gifted, if you notice them, if you’re in a state of wakefulness.