Unspoken Prayers
…to ask for prayers about the unspeakable.” Phillips’ characters have rich interior lives that don’t always translate gracefully into their communities. Several stories in Sleepovers feature characters who aren’t from…
…to ask for prayers about the unspeakable.” Phillips’ characters have rich interior lives that don’t always translate gracefully into their communities. Several stories in Sleepovers feature characters who aren’t from…
…the national conversation about racial injustices in America will change children’s book publishing for the better? Watson: I’m cautiously hopeful that change will come to children’s book publishing. Change ebbs…
…her family preparing for a camping trip (as a cat and a snake are in a standoff) before the piece turns its attention to the medicinal history of venom. The…
…Vesper Flights, which catalogues innumerable examples of the complicated, sometimes surreal ways in which humans and animals must attempt share the same world. Unforgettable images arise from these accounts: a…
…wheedling call.” Divided into creatures of the air, land, and water, the collection is both personal and practical. Each of the 36 short essays describes the distinguishing marks of an…
…Books of Chapel Hill. It was an unusual title for their list, so she was taking a chance with this kind of “ethnic literature,” which had always been considered sociological.…