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Clearing the Bar with Care and Complexity: Ada Limón’s The Hurting Kind

The Hurting Kind’s epigraph, a quote from Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik [implores] us to “Sing as if nothing were wrong. / Nothing is wrong.” When we read Limón, we can almost believe that.

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This Is All the Time We Get: A Conversation with Felicia Chiao

I've been drawing the figure alone in interiors for a long time, and when the lockdown happened, my work blew up. I recognized, “Oh, suddenly everyone's depressed at the same time.”

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Hometown Humbling: Delia Cai’s Central Places

The shame is cumulative.

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All the World is a K-Drama: A Conversation with Matthew Salesses

I wanted to be able to frame the story within this understanding that these are powerful forces and that these are stories we’ve heard a lot before, and that these stories get in the way of, or make it hard to understand or even listen to, a more authentic or more real story about who people are or can be.

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All Storytelling is Nonbinary: An interview with Jennifer Savran Kelly

People who feel safe and able or who have privilege should use the space they create for themselves to make more space for people from marginalized communities. We all need to hold space for one another.

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Languages Within A Language: Camilo José Cela’s The Hive

How do you represent, in a different tongue, the languages within the language of the original text?

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Belonging across multiple places: Sorayya Khan examines the concept of home

I think we are all shaped by history, whether we accept this or not.

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What to Read When: You Like to Look at Birds

I have long gravitated toward books that know where they are situated.

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Holding On and Letting Go: Rebecca Aronson’s Anchor

Gravity is what tethers us to the earth and to those we love, but it is also what we are constantly trying to escape. Anchor is about both these states—the holding on and the letting go—and the tension between them.

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