Letting the Unspoken Speak: A Reading List of Historical Trauma in Fiction

Letting the Unspoken Speak: A Reading List of Historical Trauma in Fiction

Etaf Rum Recommends Lisa Ko, Tommy Orange, Lan Cao, and More

By Etaf Rum | September 22, 2023

Beth Nguyen on Taylor Swift, Edith Wharton, and Creating a Double Perspective

Beth Nguyen on Taylor Swift, Edith Wharton, and Creating a Double Perspective

"What do we reveal and what do we keep to ourselves, and for what reasons?"

By Beth Nguyen | September 22, 2023

Literary Highlights from the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival

Literary Highlights from the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival

Elissa Suh Reviews Wildcat, Gonzo Girl, American Fiction, and More

By Elissa Suh | September 22, 2023

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Anne Enright, Jonathan Raban, Daniel Mason, and More

By Book Marks | September 22, 2023

Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction’</em>s 2023 Insider Prize, Selected by Nickolas Butler

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2023 Insider Prize, Selected by Nickolas Butler

By Literary Hub | September 22, 2023

Ross Gay: In Praise of (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes

Ross Gay: In Praise of (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes

"I long for a book made of only endnotes."

By Ross Gay | September 21, 2023

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  • The Shampoo Effect
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All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

By Fae Myenne Ng | September 21, 2023

How America's Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

By Tiya Miles | September 21, 2023

What Makes Language Human?

By Caleb Everett | September 21, 2023

Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

"Faith gave the women around me strengths and simultaneous burdens."

By Halle Hill | September 21, 2023

We Need a Motherf*cking Break: On Mom Rage and the Fantasy of Joint Custody

We Need a Motherf*cking Break: On Mom Rage and the Fantasy of Joint Custody

Minna Dubin Considers the Potential Upside of Divorce

By Minna Dubin | September 21, 2023

As I Lay Dying: Five Books that Reckon with Illness and Time

As I Lay Dying: Five Books that Reckon with Illness and Time

Maria Smilios Recommends Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Tova Bailey & More

By Maria Smilios | September 21, 2023

Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding to the War in Ukraine

Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding to the War in Ukraine

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 21, 2023

Kat Calvin on Fighting for Those Without Documentation

Kat Calvin on Fighting for Those Without Documentation

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 21, 2023

Cidny Bullens on Life as a Cosmic Rock Star

Cidny Bullens on Life as a Cosmic Rock Star

In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | September 21, 2023

Kristi Coulter on Being Inside Amazon in the Early Days

Kristi Coulter on Being Inside Amazon in the Early Days

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 21, 2023

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