Etaf Rum’s Evil Eye is a captivating, heart wrenching novel about navigating intergenerational trauma, and finding your identity in a…
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There’s a TikTok trend that haunts me lately, finding its way to my phone every chance it gets. In the…
This Android Hopes You’ll Swipe Right Requiem for the Most Famous Drag King of Our Lifetimes Despite the urban legends…
Back in high school in the 1990s, I was taught history with a capital “H,” the kind of history that…
Jami Nakamura Lin begins with a warning: “In the presence of a story—if the story is a good one—time collapses.”…
It was a stormy summer day, dead in the middle of August, with lightning sheeting the sky and a deep…
Who is responsible for maintaining family lore? In Company, Shannon Sanders introduces—and repeatedly reintroduces—readers to the Collinses, a Black family…
A Black Belt in Karate Doesn’t Make a Fair Father Salar Abdoh Share article An excerpt from A Nearby Country…
Venezuela, my home country, was once one of the richest countries in Latin America due to the discovery of oil…
The Masquerade of the Red Death is the one night every year where we gather in Brooklyn, celebrate with our…
“The world here beats faster than a hummingbird’s wings,” writes Alexandra Chang in her new collection Tomb Sweeping. Chang, the…
The Mug Shot: Look straight ahead and contemplate the lousy Kirkus review you’re sure to get. The Talk Show Host:…
“It’s brave of us to die!” writes Melissa Broder in Death Valley, a desert survival story. The woman in Broder’s…
I Dressed Up as a Husband for My Wedding Marriage I was married once, at least we thought about it,…
For me, it all started with Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Then came the tales of Flannery O’Connor, Shirley Jackson, Ursula…
“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover”—Mary Shelley I skipped the day we discussed Frankenstein…
Darrin Bell didn’t set out to write his much anticipated graphic memoir, The Talk. He’d initially sold another project delving…
You Can’t Raise a Daughter on Hope and Junk Food Alone Kristen Gentry Share article A New World by Kristen…