Save Me, Stranger – Erika Krouse
A book that preaches empathy and human connection is nothing new. But Krouse isn’t preaching, and her characters often don’t understand each other.
I Hope You’re Happy – Marni Appleton
[The Indigo Press; 2025] Things sure have gotten weird, haven’t they? Younger generations, contextualized by the internet since birth, face the breakdown of their relationships to art. This breakdown reflects the jumbled, murky, often irretrievably frayed relationships they try to form with each other in a time when it’s difficult to identify the purpose of […]
Mouthing Off: Oral History as an Anticapitalist Form
An oral history is a unique form of nonfiction where, from the beginning, we are given no promise of truth and the editors make no claims toward a clear, ideologically-specific thesis about their subjects.
The Surrender of Man – Naomi Falk
How do you articulate with the limited construct of language something as rich and malleable as an emotional response to art?
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Esther Lin, and Janine Joseph
Toni Morrison writes about how “you have to write the book that you want to read.” When I was growing up undocumented, the only things to read about my “situation” was through newspapers, and it was always a crisis.
[Giles] feels like she is the bridge: stuck, supporting everyone else in her life, carrying a weight she can’t quite pinpoint.
As the narrator . . . identifies increasingly with their tools, the desert feels more and more like a living being, breathing sand outside its original bounds, germinating and folding blades of grass, unwilling to be captive to . . . humans.