…relief from devastating symptoms when conventional medicine offered few options. Stories like Meridy’s place the rapidly evolving legal and cultural status of all cannabis-related products into fascinating perspective. “The AIDS…
…as more than a colorful swirl of imagery. They provide a structural conceit that allows Smith to organize two millennia’s worth of material about Rome’s history and people. In “The…
…bearing witness to music’s alchemical power in a volatile world. Smith’s latest dispatch from her nomadic travels, Year of the Monkey, also reflects the surreal confusion of our fractured, threatening…
…battle against Resolution 108 would have meant losing legal safeguards that kept these already ravaged nations from dissolving altogether. Alongside Thomas, the novel’s other driving force is Patrice Paranteau, a…
…academia. However, what López does best in this collection is to move beyond the veneer of intellectual and professional gamesmanship and expose the internal conflicts of her memorable central characters….
From school shootings to toddlers in cages, our historical moment can feel like a Grimm’s fairy tale. It’s no surprise, then, that our leading novelists have often couched their work…
