Chana Porter’s new speculative novel The Thick and the Lean applies American sexual taboos to food and hunger, and gives…
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Tom Podmore / UnsplashIn this creative nonfiction from London, a question once asked suspiciously becomes a question a man asks…
As I prepare for the paperback launch of my debut novel The Girls in Queens, I share with a group…
“This is one of those stories that begins with a female body,” opens Erica Berry’s evocative exploration of wolves, fear,…
Illustration courtesy of the author Julius D. Jones is a talented and thought-provoking artist who cares deeply about humanity, justice,…
Over the past fifteen years, I’ve had the pleasure of crossing paths with the peripatetic Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa…
Photo by Oluwafikunmi KilankoAmong the shortlisted short stories for this year’s edition of the Caine Prize for African writing is Yejide…
The Scientific Method Does Not Apply to First Love Alexandra Chang Alexandra Chang is the author of the novel Days of…
It isn’t unusual for libraries to feature prominently in novels; novelists, after all, are merely adult versions of the little…
Barbara Millicent Roberts is used to being a cultural tastemaker. Since the release of the first Barbie in 1959, there…
The Most Iconic Barbie Story Ever Told AM Homes Share article A Real Doll by AM Homes I’m dating Barbie.…
This conversation between AM Homes and Forever Barbie author MG Lord is part of Recommended Reading’s special issue of Homes’…
Debut: The word connotes virginal daughters of the elite, gowned and gleaming, stepping lightly in heels through a ballroom and…
The first week of July, the Caine Prize for African Writing released its shortlist for this year’s edition of the…
Alif, the protagonist of Anjum Hasan’s latest novel History’s Angel, is borne by historical forces into an increasingly catastrophic future…
This Robot Runs on Empathy and Sunrises To Catch the Dual Sunrise 117 steps from camp I don’t think anyone…
Kathryn Savage / Photo by Melissa LukenbaughKathryn Savage’s Groundglass (Coffee House Press, 2022) explores the health harms of living in…
As someone living with a disability, and a scholar, I have always looked to literature for hope. I have always…