If our eyes let external horrors enter us, our jaws reverse the equation.
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.