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Like Clockwork, Like Memory: There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife by JinJin Xu

  • Michelle Xu
  • September 10, 2021
How to live with a love so intense, a pressure so ripe?
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Cherry Blossom Girl

  • Julie Chang
  • June 28, 2021
Her name was Ing Hua. Literal translation: Cherry Blossom.
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Omayra (In Other Words)

  • Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo
  • June 22, 2021
I wonder, then, what it is to die. Perhaps to die is a matter of location.
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The Reconstruction of Derrida: Peter Salmon’s An Event, Perhaps

  • Naomi Kanakia
  • June 16, 2021
The key insight is that names, and indeed all boundaries, involve a hierarchy.
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On Monsters and Mythology: A Conversation with Alex DiFrancesco

  • Jessica Mannion
  • June 9, 2021
Alex DiFrancesco discusses their new story collection, TRANSMUTATION.
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Everything Must Change: A Conversation with Melissa Febos

  • Kelly Thompson
  • March 22, 2021
Melissa Febos discusses her new essay collection, GIRLHOOD.
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A Language for Extinction: Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds

  • Aiya Sakr
  • January 22, 2021
And if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
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On Relic and Recovery: A Conversation with Kimiko Hahn

  • Mackenzie Singh
  • November 9, 2020
Poet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
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Circuitous Journeys: Talking with Sejal Shah

  • Madhushree Ghosh
  • May 20, 2020
Sejal Shah discusses her debut essay collection, THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE.
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The Thread: Lacuna

  • Marissa Korbel
  • January 14, 2020
If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
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Celebrating Queer Portland: A Conversation with Claire Rudy Foster

  • Marissa Korbel
  • October 23, 2019
Foster discusses their new story collection, SHINE OF THE EVER.
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Welcome to South Bend: How to Change Your Name in Indiana

  • Kelcey Parker Ervick
  • August 20, 2019
I don’t even know what planet I'm on!
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