Features & Reviews
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Let it tremble in riotous beauty: Ana Portnoy Brimmer’s To Love an Island
Our love should make us quake, quake like a storm, a storm that tears down “the whole blood-marbled edifice.”
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I Had to Hold a Whole Ocean in My Hands: A Conversation with Ani Gjika
To be human means to be forever shifting with the emotions of the day, of the hour. We are never just one thing.
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The Gravity of Displacement: Balsam Karam’s The Singularity
A refugee tale is always about the children, not least because they are the tellers.
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Reversing Reversal: A Conversation with Lisa Olstein
I’m interested in complexity. I’m interested in the fact that very few things are simple.
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Making Absurd Logic Salient: A Conversation with Alexander Sammartino
I like to think of the short novel as the thin elephant; as an artistic form, it interests me because, by definition, it exists in a state of tension.
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Our Anesthetized Culture: Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld
You can probably describe your algorithmic content with a comical level of detail—the unsolicited stuff you’re targeted with each time you go online. Mine includes nail art, vegan-alternative recipes for candy bars, and “get ready with me” videos of women…
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Black Poetics: A Conversation with Dr. Taylor Byas
We want you to learn from this book, be curious, and leave with a desire to learn more and an idea of where to go to find what you want to know.
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The Man Who Swallowed a Bullet and the Woman Who Wrote About It: A Conversation with Elizabeth Gonzalez James
In the spirit of leaning into the strengths you have as a writer, I try to make setting another character when I write and try to make the picture as vivid for readers as I can.
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Psychedelic Revision: Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dream of Empires
It is in their form—ravaging, dumb, dreamlike, free—that we can glean momentary order from Enrigue’s comic humor.
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Listen Repetitively: A Conversation with Zachary Pace
I love to listen repetitively, and I love to appreciate and to praise the people who I respect and admire, so I thought, “This is what I can do. I can just love and love again through this book.”
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Sketch Book Reviews: Ardor
Knorr . . . makes a variety of forms and experiments into a cohesive artifact.
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Mother, Wife, Writer, Daughter: A Conversation with Julie Myerson
“When we love people, we stand to lose so much, don’t we? It’s one of the best things to write about.”