Features & Reviews
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AI as Memoir: A Conversation with Amy Kurzweil
Identity is a pastiche. My identity is made up of my family identities, in addition to other things that I’m always struggling to find.
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Curiosity is the Devil’s Lure: Liliana Colanzi’s You Glow in the Dark
Colanzi is rebelling against the loss of collective memory of tragedy, against the unbearable fact that things go back to normal faster than they should.
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Writing a Poem as An Act of Faith: A Conversation with Yalie Saweda Kamara
Each day returning to this book teaches me something else. It teaches me about the height of my optimism.
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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.