John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts
In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast
Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
"There’s a whiff of desperate masculinity floating through the book, as rank as a Pretoria boys’ locker room"
WATCH: Ursula K. Le Guin on Her Illegal Abortion in 1950
“I beg you to see what it is that we must save, and not to let the bigots and misogynists
take it away from us again.”
On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel’s Fantastic Four
"The fact that the stories and characters that made me a reader as a kid are still as prevalent today just goes to show how truly fantastic they still are."
James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction
"It’s both mystical and humiliating how your novel can know things before you yourself know them."
“boys with hands behind necks,” a Poem by Ntozake Shange
From the Collection Sing a Black Girl's Song
Zakiya Dalila Harris on Bringing The Other Black Girl to TV
“This story—and all stories—are pliable.”
James Reich on Existential Fiction and the Imprint of Nature
"In fiction, as in reality, we dismiss nature at our peril."
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