Features & Reviews
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Let Every Fence Have a Gate: A Conversation with Jessica Jacobs
How am I complicit in this moment? How might I do better the next time I’m faced with a similar moment of choice?
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Courage, Confidence, and Craft: A Conversation with Susan Lieu
Sometimes the book had to reveal itself to me, advice I really hated that I received but is so true.
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A Carousel of Feminine Experience: Danielle Dutton’s Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
The stories she tells are profoundly intimate yet universal, with themes of self-doubt, irredeemable nostalgia, and uneasy nuclear families.
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The Aftermath of Murder: A Conversation with Kristine S. Ervin
I think language will always fail in some ways, that no matter how well we write, the words will ultimately never fully capture and convey an experience.
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Sketch Book Reviews: The Complete Gardener
What makes this book so different is the exceptional quality and thoughtfulness in Don’s writing.
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Perfumed by Fear: Silvia Guerra’s A Sea at Dawn
Guerra attempts to maneuver around obstacles with riverine language, and tensions organize around this effort.
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This is How We Make Monsters: A Conversation with Hannah V Warren
Nature is scary-beautiful, especially in the backcountry. I always carry a simmering fear of what I’ll find or what will find me alone on the trail: bears, storms, men.
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A Cult of Translation: Jennifer Croft’s The Extinction of Irena Rey
Readers preferring more straightforward narratives won’t find one here.
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“Obsession is the Secret Ingredient to Being a Creative Person”: A Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
That’s a concern that one might have in the middle of one’s life: “How much time do I have left? What did I not do? What do I still need to do?”
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The First Book: Armen Davoudian
I was attracted to those aspects of poetry where you can be in two places at once but also lost between them: rhyme, the pun, and “binary” forms like the sonnet.
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“All of Humanity Probably Won’t Enjoy My Book:” A Conversation with Debbie Urbanski
If you are reading the story of the last human on Earth, then you should expect to have to do some work.
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A Manifested Destiny: Vinson Cunningham’s Great Expectations
There is the power of money and its capacity to corrupt—money that flows often from the pockets of wealthy white men but sheds some green onto any hand it touches.