Features & Reviews
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It is Once Again Hanif Abdurraqib’s Year
Abdurraqib merges the personal and the universal in such a way that I cannot help but feel a part of these moments, despite some of them taking place before my birth, or before I was conscious of basketball’s existence.
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I Had to Find a New Language: A Conversation with Anna Gazmarian
I wanted to write about faith in a way that people who are not Christian, or do not understand that worldview, could read and have a more nuanced approach to faith.
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Sketch Book Reviews: The Book of (More) Delights
Today’s delight: a flush of blooming forget-me-nots creating a blue blanket on the edge of my garden.
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Vanishing as a Way of Resistance: A Conversation with Saúl Hernández
My job as a write is to first witness, and then record. It would be an injustice to these poems if they were not written from a place of vulnerability and truth.
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A Horror That Cannot be Helped
The summer expands in front of them, and their future disappears. The cheap housing they are cooped up in becomes even less glamorous during the blackouts.
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Complicating Cancel Culture: A Conversation with Christine Ma-Kellams
Subconsciously, when writing my own work, I want to make sure that people understand how these characters became who they are.
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The First Book: Eddie Ahn
The themes in the book subsequently shaped the story’s chronology and created a different style of graphic storytelling, connecting my family’s history with my community work and service.
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Embodiment as a Sensorial Practice in Saretta Morgan’s Alt-Nature
Morgan practices the language of collective and enumerated ecologies . . . lexicons we often consider distinct, without an ecotone.
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Mother-Daughter Bonds and the Power of Greek Myth: A Conversation with Ann Batchelder
My hope is that as a society we can emphasize compassion over stigma and treatment over punishment.
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Holding a Mirror to Realism in The Novices of Lerna
His fictional world, as presented in this novella, develops a split truth, one where narrative reality and absurdist abstraction hang in the balance.
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Confronting the Climate Crisis through Fiction: A Conversation with Mary Annaïse Heglar
You write a book to get over something. You read a book to get into it.
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We Are Weird and We Are Not Alone: A Conversation with Mary Biddinger
We are going to need nature more than ever before. We also need to continue being kind to each other and to uplift other writers whenever we can.