June Hall McCash discusses her novel The Truth Keepers
…and various archival sources in the London area, which was Sarah’s home city. It’s always exciting to discover documents like Amelia’s passport to come to America or a poem written…
Book Excerpt: Focal Point
…grand and inconceivable somewhere, anywhere at all. And then, I’ll feel the wrench of babbling child, aging father binding me to shore. [Read Chapter 16’s interview with Jenny Qi here.]…
Book Excerpt: Old Roads
merging into a single blue lake and sky the crickets sometimes they change tune horses snort breath from their nostrils fills the air amid cracked stones of the cemetery —…
Capturing the Drive-By Truckers on the page
…called Gangstabilly and Pizza Deliverance? But it’s not enough to say the album made the band. It was essential to their survival and to everything that followed. And back in…
Rob Nixon discusses writers, activists, and the challenges of the Global South
…Agent Orange. Slow violence is pertinent to environmental justice because the incremental unfolding of threats to human and environmental health is experienced unequally by wealthy and impoverished communities. Time can…
Bradley Sides’ debut collection delivers sincerely strange stories
…entire village, who cleanse themselves by drinking her tears (“Restored”). A married couple adopts a miniature refugee, small enough to sleep on an ice cube (“From Hiemslandia”). Spirits, aliens, and…
