Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix – Katherine Cross
Can people create meaningful change by posting? Is Twitter bad for politics?
No One Knows Their Blood Type (Excerpt)
Lately I’ve stopped looking at my father; his body is just another part of the room now, like the bed, the chair, and the window onto the maternity ward.
Divided Island – Daniela Tarazona
Like playing a game with a smart and mischievous child who is constantly reinventing the rules, Tarazona guides us towards the signposts and obscures them over and over again.
Two Thieves: Debut Authors on Self-Plagiarism, Theft, and Sample
What drives us to steal? To become a thief? To get the things we want—physical objects, words, ideas—by taking them?
Traces of Enayat – Iman Mersal
It is not Mersal’s task, she decides, to tell Enayat’s story, but to be in dialogue with her, as much as such a thing is possible. Her task is “to take a journey towards someone who cannot speak for themselves.”
Feathers: A Bird-Hat Wearer’s Journal – Sarah Rose Nordgren
Bird-hats gained popularity because they positioned the wearer as part of the natural world, but, as women toted corpses on their heads, they also aligned women with violence and monstrosity.
This haunted house is both prison and protector, antagonist and ally. . . . Martínez seems to align this ambivalence with the downsides of vengeance itself.
Magic, magical realism, or magical thinking are the ultimate expression of powerlessness, but they are also holders of the possibility of a better, more just, world.
We the Parasites – A.V. Marraccini
Another type of critic might submit to art’s powers of possession, the battle to best or be bested by the work, its expression, the puncture that collapses the artist’s time with the viewer’s . . . The critic can help other viewers see the world from within an artwork’s viscera, the history-culture-language that sustains it.
The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks –Agnieszka Taborska
At its heart, The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks is a quirky love letter to the city of Providence.