Alice Faye Duncan celebrates two courageous Black women in new picture-book biographies
…in poetry and prose the persistence and courage of both women and what each contributed to the culture at large. Photo: Tarrice Love The multifaced Duncan, who lives in Memphis,…
Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend is a chronicle of survival and liberation
…[the enslavers] will want what they believe is theirs.” The most empowering course of action then, is to take oneself back, to believe, as Annis does, in the voices of…
Claire Keegan’s stories chart the good and bad of romantic relationships
…off this fish van, which came up from Kilmore Quay.” Contrast that abundance with the state of the man’s refrigerator when he reverts to bachelorhood. “There was nothing fresh there:…
Kelsey Norris’ debut story collection resonates with unanswered questions
…“world at the perimeter,” a pan surrounded by desert. “Abandoned dwellings littered the pan’s perimeter, and the men loaded the remnants into trucks and donkey carts, hauled them toward the…
I knew all the neighborhood cats, and this wasn’t one of them
…unwrapped its tendrils from around the sapling’s trunk, then pulled the vine’s foliage out of the tree’s branches. This took effort because the honeysuckle was often intertwined with grapevines, resulting…
In Erica Waters’ All That Consumes Us, something is rotten in elite academia
…we are.” These fears are particularly salient for low-income students, for whom there is both the expectation that you will live up to the legacies of the alumni who came…
