Even to death and in their assholes.
Sometimes I Lie and Sometimes I Don’t – Nadja Spiegel
There is always the sense that Spiegel’s narrators are learning and relearning the rules of propriety; that they are struggling to negotiate public expectations.
Writers and the Slow Road to #Progress
Social media is not a threat to a writer’s creative development but a continuation of it—or perhaps its very beginning.
Ultimately I am interested in Caribbean writing for itself, on its own terms. I am interested in it because it is interesting.
The Things We Don’t Do – Andrés Neuman
The best stories in the collection are similarly masterful examples of the short form, and beautiful expeditions into the nebulous space between self and other.
Vanished [is] a treatise on the responsibilities we have to confront the legacies of occupation, of lies, and to insist on the disclosure of history’s truths.
Art & Algae: The Work of Anna Atkins
As we face an accelerating environmental crisis in this century, Atkins’ seaweed impressions remind us about extinctions past and present, those erasures and absences yet to come.
Silence and Song – Melanie Rae Thon
Silence and Song is Thon’s most radical experiment in form and lyrical expression.
The state did not always consider itself so incapable of helping push forward social change.
My book considers these fairly elite, mainstream conversations about China and America’s shared future. But it’s also about the construction of authority, the spirit of competition that underlies all intellectual endeavor.