“Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century”, by Kim Fu is a collection of short stories that at no point shies away from the difficult and complex questions that have plagued humans from the beginning. Think grief. Think connection. Think love. Think lust. But what makes this book sting is the way these emotions and quandaries come up against the technology that is shaping the experience of being alive in the 21st century.
Read MoreSuburban life, we are told, is defined by quiet desperation: stable but emotionally hollow, full of relationships that function but do not fulfill. The claim has become so familiar that it rarely needs to be defended. Stability itself is taken as evidence of something missing. Yet the problem may not be that suburban life fails to produce fulfillment. It may be that we have lost the ability to recognize fulfillment when it appears in ordinary form.
Read MoreThis debut collection of poetry, Bloodmercy, by Nigerian/American Itiola S. Jones is a reimagining and retelling of the biblical story of Adam and Eve. The poems are set in an evolving remote natural landscape, a realm between the Old Testament and the modern era…
Read MorePaula Lehman-Ewing’s work continues to spark critical conversations about abolition, liberation, and the communities we can build when we imagine otherwise. At a time when so many communities are being asked to survive systems that were never built for them, this book feels more necessary than ever.
Read MoreIn this interview, National Geographic Explorer and author Thammika Songkaeo discusses urban life, emotional landscapes, and why environmental writing belongs as much to city dwellers as it does to wilderness storytellers.
Read MoreWhat does it mean to make something by hand today? At Green Door Folk School in Michigan, craft becomes a way to reconnect with materials, community, and ourselves.
Read MoreIn 2021, archeologists in Saskatchewan uncovered a 200-person mass grave outside of an Indian boarding school that had been in operation until 1998. It was an unusual discovery in the sense of size, but finding disappeared children at these institutions wasn’t in itself unusual…
Read MoreMichael Paul Hogan’s newly released short story collection leads the reader on a mesmerizing joyride, offering a variegated gamut of settings, characters, point of views, narrative styles and registers, among which the author seamlessly shifts, like a skilled racing driver or a consummate ballroom dancer.
Read MoreKatia Hage’s “to a cypress” and J Michael Walker’s Anita Lets Her Feelings Show
Read MoreThe Holocaust didn’t start with mass murder. It started with hatred, discrimination, and a climate of fear.
Read MoreBoon’s new memoir explores the impact of climate change on glacial hydrology, the toxicity and sexism found in academia, and the role of mental health in choosing — and losing — one’s career.
Read MoreSociety always emphasizes its notions about how a woman should be—a skinny body, pretty, etc. I now see the pendulum swinging back toward muscular bodies, and strong women are being embraced much more.
Read MoreCynthia Anderson’s The Missing Peace and Peter Liashkov’s Olga Liachkoff (Rage).
Read MoreSchulman’s funny, sexy, and wide-ranging new collection, her first in more than twenty-five years, is comprised of ten stories — one new and nine published over the past three decades — about relationships, sex, love, female agency, and people’s fierce attachments to each other
Read MoreAlexis Rhone Fancher’s “I Was a Mediocre Mother” and Melinda Smith Altshuler’s Moving, Not Moving.
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