In 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.
Read MoreExploring 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.
Read MoreRosenfeld 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.
Read MoreMother 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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