The Baba Yaga Takes the A Train
Veronica Schanoes weaves together past and present, myth and current events as she leads us to meditate on celebrity, life, death, and loss....
Brushing Off the Dust: On “I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust”
Melissa Greenwood relates to and reviews “I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust” by Emily Grodin and Valerie Gilpeer....
Searching for Healing in a Darkening Land
Brandon Hobson’s “The Removed” is a horrific, funny, sensual, thoughtful, and ultimately truthful account of the ongoing scourge of racism....
He Loved Everyone in Trinidad: On Martin J. Smith’s “Going to Trinidad”
A Colorado doctor put his town on the map for gender confirmation surgery. The town didn’t celebrate it....
Death and Hope: On Federico Falco’s “A Perfect Cemetery”
The first translated collection of stories from a celebrated Argentinian author....
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of G. C. Waldrep’s “The Earliest Witnesses”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader consider “The Earliest Witnesses” by G. C. Waldrep....
The Art of Captivity: Luchita Hurtado
Illuminating conversations with a major L.A.-based Venezuelan-American female artist....
“An Apparition, Am I Not?”: On Cynthia Ozick’s “Antiquities”
Nathan Dunne follows Cynthia Ozick into the labyrinth of her latest novel, “Antiquities.”...
Abolishing the Suburbs: On Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear”
David Helps considers Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001.”...
Alternative Internets and Their Lost Histories
Lori Emerson excavates the history of alternative internets like AfroNet — and concludes our current monolithic internet is the offspring of colonialist mindsets....
The Everyday, Between Revolution and Reaction
Do US politics ignore life as it actually plays out? The question also stands in the UK....
Collapsing Time: On John Fuller’s “Asleep and Awake”
Declan Ryan is enchanted by “Asleep and Awake,” a collection of poetry by John Fuller....
