Photo by JR P / FlickrIn her new essay collection, These Particular Women (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2023), Kat Meads writes…
Browsing: Books
The parade started early in the morning, before the heat could set in. The humidity in Taiwan was formidable, and…
1 The 1984 Neustadt Prize banquet honored Finnish writer Paavo Haavikko. Left to right: Astrid Ivask, Ritva Rainio, Paavo Haavikko, Dolores…
A Fresh Start in a City Ruled by History Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya Share article Excerpt from The Holy Days of…
Obsessively scratching her scalp, while simultaneously chiding herself not to, Kendra Rae Phillips sits on a MetroNorth train anxious and…
There’s a reason that we as a culture have spent the last 20 years debating whether there was enough room…
M. Evelina Galang explores the many manifestations of what it means to be Filipina and Filipina American across decades, countries,…
Sports, sci fi shows, and Stephen King were the most consistent topics of conversation for my father and I. Of…
One of my favorite short story writers, Eudora Welty, once said: “Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and…
Kiah Holliman’s car accident happened on the last icy day of February 2022. The following morning, clear blue sky lit…
I am 33-years-old, just young enough that I feel like I can still reach out and touch my 20s. The…
Jem Bendell is a known scholar on societal collapse who rose to prominence in 2018 with his academic paper…
Photo by NancieLee Free at last. Free at last.Thank God almighty, we’re free at last. “[O]n the first day of…
The Toughest Fish in the Barrel The Old World Sunrise Foods, just a few blocks from my house, is marked…
Kenan Orhan’s debut, I Am My Country, feels like much more than just a book of imaginative short stories set…
Photo by Lucas Calloch / UnsplashJapanese GardenI curve like a wooden bridgeover a lake lit up by red carpsI am…
I wake early each morning, before the kids, to write and see the real city—my private Brooklyn curving in on…
There’s something viscerally appealing about nesting dolls. The same holds true, I’d argue, for nesting narratives. Each new layer to…