Alejandro Concas-Rivas
What 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.
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Savannah Brooks
In 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…
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Toti O’Brien
Michael 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.
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Toti O’Brien
Katia Hage’s “to a cypress” and J Michael Walker’s Anita Lets Her Feelings Show
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Christina Gaskievicz
The Holocaust didn’t start with mass murder. It started with hatred, discrimination, and a climate of fear.
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Sasha Bailey
Boon’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.
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Swetha Amit
Society 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.
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Toti O’Brien
Cynthia Anderson’s The Missing Peace and Peter Liashkov’s Olga Liachkoff (Rage).
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Jennifer Cho Salaff
Schulman’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
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Toti O’Brien
Alexis Rhone Fancher’s “I Was a Mediocre Mother” and Melinda Smith Altshuler’s Moving, Not Moving.
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Rowan Tetro
Exploring the societal institutions that are founded on and perpetuate racism, white supremacy, and colonization, Lea’s book details her journey in moving beyond the racism ingrained in her family’s lineage and environment. Ultimately, American Bloodlines is about human connection and how kinship is our weapon against hate.
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Elissa Greenwald
Rosenfeld compares the narrator’s hearing difficulties to the silences engulfing people whose stories are lost to time… The narrator seeks to restore them, countering our current difficulty hearing or heeding the past.
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Toti O’Brien
Mother Memory is an art exhibit that will open at Wonzimer (Los Angeles, Lincoln Heights) on August 15, 2025. A related poetry-and-performance event will take place on August 22. The exhibit will include a selection of work from nine artists. The event will showcase the work of seven poets and three performers.
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Jason Masino
It’s always been my belief that writing is a political act, an act of resistance, however we decide to use our words to do so. Our writing should absolutely reflect society and our environments as an act of resistance.
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