Asterisms

Review: Fabienne Josaphat’s Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow

Fabienne Josaphat’s exhilarating debut novel is difficult to put down. Under the corrupt and brutal…

La Llorona at the Saloon

There are no more dances there. When she clocks in, the batwings sound as if…

Heart on a Sleeve, A Performance

  Entrance A black woman sits in the audience with a handsome young man. He…

To What Do We Owe This Pleasure: On the Value of Not Writing

  “The goal is not to make a story but to experience the whole mess.”…

Inside Jane Heap’s Boudoir “the best conversation the world has to offer”

Much of the twentieth century’s most innovative writing made its first appearance on the pages…

Review: Una’s Becoming Unbecoming is a must read

Becoming Unbecoming, an anonymously written graphic novel, tells the story of Una.  First sexually assaulted as…

Fast Close: In Conversation with Jennifer Clement

I met Jennifer Clement for the first time in 2011 while traveling with the Iowa…

The Sea Shimmers Between Us

“A lternate street parking has been cancelled today.” Mina’s radio in Brooklyn and mine on…

abandoning the murder capital
(san pedro sula, honduras, 2013)

  retiring in the murder capital of the world adjust volume; some sound.   abandoning…

Television by Madhu Kaza

At a Christmas gathering at a cousin’s house in Maryland I mentioned to my five-year-old…