The Revision of Stories in Long Division
In revising his debut novel, about Black teenagers who time travel to see their family, Laymon gets to relive the experience of creating and being in his novel, in a world he created to and for his peoples.
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Confronting the Past in Elias Rodriques’s Debut Novel
Rodriques examines what it is to reconsider male friendship in adulthood, to balance newfound beliefs and acceptances.
“Nothing lasts, nothing is solid, as much as we think it will be”: An Interview with Matt W. Miller
Matt W. Miller’s fourth book chronicles in documentary poetics the history of the Merrimack River, braiding together its many voices from the perspective of the twenty-first century, when the insistence of memory resides everywhere and in everything: people, the river, the land, industry, relationships—in short, in one’s spirit.
The Exploration of Memory in Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
While the objectivity of memory—and even its actual substance—is consistently brought into question in Kyoko Nakajima’s stories, what remains clear are the emotions attached to the act of remembering and the way these emotions meaningfully link individuals or objects across time.
Reinventing Loss in The Vault
Cerpa navigates the helplessness of trying to express what is inexpressible amid the cruel accrual of despair.
Poetry of Data, Poetry of Experience
“Truth in poetry” depends not on the record of information but on experience: a life represented in metaphor, the patterns of language that make a time-signature through which we listen.
Revisiting The Oasis
Mary McCarthy’s 1949 novel is not just a story about personal failings and internecine squabbling—it’s also a stark warning about intellectual capture, about what can be lost if you don’t approach politics with a healthy dose of skepticism.
The Allure of Scapegoating in Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
In her new novel, Rivka Galchen explores insidious philosophical terrain with incisive intellect and humor, once again proving herself to be one of contemporary fiction’s sharpest minds.
Reading Two Groff Companion Pieces
Two of Lauren Groff’s recent stories share an interest: exploring the relationship between domestic violence and masculinity. Each story acts as a mirror for the other, the differences often pointing up the similarities and allowing the two pieces to connect in subtle and nuanced ways.