Spotlight: “I Met Prince Once”
While struggling with a severe bout of depression I found myself inexplicably drawn to Prince’s music.
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Spotlight: “Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene and Cell Decay”
Maybe that’s what we should teach in schools.
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Spotlight: “Reflections on My Quiet Nature”
Living in an extrovert-oriented society, I’ve always struggled to accept my own introverted nature.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Song for the Unraveling of the World
Even at its most earthbound, I’d rather spend my time in Evenson’s world…
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Spotlight: “As Before, So Behind (redux)”
What follows is an attempt to speak to the living, as well as the dead.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Why Buddhism Is True
Our feelings and thoughts fight it out offstage and our ego tells a story to justify the result.
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Spotlight: “Roving Woman”
How sad, sure, but also how haunting, thrilling, lovely, and sweet.
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Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet
In 1999 I was five. I was really just discovering comics for the first time—mostly by reading Spiderman.
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Spotlight: “My Dead Friend’s Favorite Book”
Whenever I need to be close to Chelsea and the lessons she taught me, all I have to do is read.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Demon-Haunted World
The same factors that made us burn witches cause us to fall for fake news…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Bloody Chamber
They demand to be read aloud, the vocabulary seductively textured, tactile, like fan-vaulted chanterelles.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Evergreen Review No. 1
…a beard divides parents from son in this time capsule of the 50s avant-garde…
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Spotlight: “Where Women’s Stories Go to Die”
An exploration of the toxic misogyny women artists experience in the workplace.
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HORN! REVIEWS: How to Read Donald Duck
As relevant now as it was in 1971, this book pulls the thread of the mouse…
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Spotlight: “Fashion Dos and Don’ts 2050: Climate Apocalypse Edition”
A satiric comic that looks at the grim reality of climate catastrophe through the humorous lens of fashion tips.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Autonomous
The future depicted is socially grim, suggesting some things never change…
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Spotlight: “Moon Moth” by Dylan Webb
In “Moon Moth,” Dylan Webb braids narratives amidst puppy love and quiet woods.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Station Eleven
It’s a masterpiece of structure, connecting our epoch inevitably to the next through artifacts and accounts…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Doll’s Alphabet
Like tinned meat years after the war, there’s something sweetly off about these stories…
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Spotlight: “Survivors” by Aubrey Hirsch
But more and more I began to wonder if you needed to be human to be a person.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Gulliver’s Travels
In a perfectly blameless Work of Fact, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver gets his perspective flipped…
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