Fandom: The Next Generation – ed. Bridget Kies and Megan Connor
As reboots, remakes, universe extensions, and homages populate more and more of the cultural landscape, a whole set of turf battles comes along with them.
Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either – Marisa Tirado
I often wonder if it is just as lonely to be the last family member to speak a mother tongue as the first to not know the family language.
What happens to idealism across time, across a lifetime, across generations? And how do we—or should we—respond to a failed utopia?
The centering of urine rejects poetry’s traditional subjects in favor of a more egalitarian common denominator.
Diego Garcia – Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
At their new locations, where they were predictably marginalized and bereft of home and familiarity, many [Chagossians] suffered a heartache so severe that it commonly caused death.
99 Interruptions – Charles Boyle
A slim, hybrid collection of thoughts, memories, wisdom, [it] may feel slight in the hand but it sits heavily in the heart.
Tell Me I’m an Artist – Chelsea Martin
Martin clearly understands one of the most painful truths about living a creative life.
How to See Ghosts and Other Figments – Orrin Grey
The phantasm is more in how we see ourselves, or more specifically in how we mistake ourselves.
Reader, work is not work, and ceci n’est pas une oeuf.
Death by Landscape – Elvia Wilk
Scene after scene, whether in stories or theory, of death by landscape, make clear the pervasive crisis that climate has become on Earth.