M. Evelina Galang explores the many manifestations of what it means to be Filipina and Filipina American across decades, countries,…
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Sports, sci fi shows, and Stephen King were the most consistent topics of conversation for my father and I. Of…
One of my favorite short story writers, Eudora Welty, once said: “Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and…
Kiah Holliman’s car accident happened on the last icy day of February 2022. The following morning, clear blue sky lit…
I am 33-years-old, just young enough that I feel like I can still reach out and touch my 20s. The…
Jem Bendell is a known scholar on societal collapse who rose to prominence in 2018 with his academic paper…
Photo by NancieLee Free at last. Free at last.Thank God almighty, we’re free at last. “[O]n the first day of…
The Toughest Fish in the Barrel The Old World Sunrise Foods, just a few blocks from my house, is marked…
Kenan Orhan’s debut, I Am My Country, feels like much more than just a book of imaginative short stories set…
Photo by Lucas Calloch / UnsplashJapanese GardenI curve like a wooden bridgeover a lake lit up by red carpsI am…
I wake early each morning, before the kids, to write and see the real city—my private Brooklyn curving in on…
There’s something viscerally appealing about nesting dolls. The same holds true, I’d argue, for nesting narratives. Each new layer to…
Photo by Why Kei / UnsplashJung’s Yong-jun’s short story “Disappearing Things,” from his collection A Walk along Seoulleung, won the…
The Perfect Beach Weather for Every Gender Marne Litfin Share article Daisies by Marne Litfin Neither of my girlfriends would…
The late Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, but his Twitter account is still up and viewable. The way he describes…
Hours before my toddler announces daybreak with her cry, when the night shadows start to play their old tricks on…
They say it’s what’s on the inside the counts—except, of course, when you are a book cover, and your entire…
I came to writing at thirty—after touring the worlds of fashion editorial and luxury public relations, after doing a master’s…