Science Is Sexy in There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You
In the first story of this collection, a girl learns the shocking truth that the world is made of atoms, that “when you get right down to it, it’s all just studs and holes.”
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Ariel Levy’s Queer Generation
The playful sense of shifting identity applies to feminists, to writers, to anyone who chooses to believe we can reinvent ourselves.
Biblical Rebels and Romantics in The First Love Story
Adam and Eve are the Bible's most infamous couple: Bonnie and Clyde, year zero.
The Strangely Plausible Abyss of American War
In Akkad’s dystopian scenario, the US faces a resurgent Mexico and a vast and newly powerful North African-Arabian empire.
Lesley Nneka Arimah’s Characters Muscle Their Way through Girlhood
In our current political climate with its rampant animosity towards immigrants, Arimah offers a humanizing portrait of both the Nigerian citizen and first generation young female immigrant.
Escaping Time with All Our Wrong Todays
Mastai takes the predictable stakes of time travel (erasing the future, changing the past) and heightens them.
Daddy’s Girl Sees Daddy’s Scars in The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
[Tinti] has cleverly illustrated the tender relationship between a father and his little girl, the respect a daughter has for her dad, and the lengths that both of them will travel to protect one another.
Han Yujoo, Wild Child of the South Korean Literary Scene
The Impossible Fairy Tale presents a dark and fraught conception of childhood.
J. M. Coetzee’s “Bread and Beans” Writing
I am fixated by this detail of the bread and beans because it strikes me that Coetzee’s prose might itself be described as “bread and beans” writing: short, declarative sentences, with a fairly simple vocabulary.
Against Everything and the Arbitrary Nature of Success in Trump’s America
Each essay is animated by the conviction Greif articulates in his preface: that many of the reasons for our most common habits are wrong.
Everyday Violence in Mariana Enríquez’s Things We Lost in the Fire
In Enríquez’s Argentina, superstitions and folk tales live side-by-side with stories of actual violence and horror.
The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates by Jacob Bacharach
Leah Damski reviews The Doorposts of Your House and On Your Gates by Jacob Bacharach.