Criticism

“I Want Not to Be Spoken To,” A Review of Gabriel Jesiolowski’s As Burning Leaves

It’s hard not to begin with the arresting cover image of Gabriel Jesiolowski’s As Burning…

Review: White-eye Bird – The Vegetarian by Han Kang

‘Shorn of its ceremony the body is, at best, a torn, riven thing – covered…

Difficult Women
On Being a Difficult Woman: Roxane Gay, Salma Hayek, Jessica Williams, and Radical Discomfort

When I was sixteen years old, the National Hispanic Institute nominated me to attend a…

Remedios: The Uses of Anger

Like many of you, I’ve felt so much anger–rage even–over the last week. I keep…

Solange and Her Dance

“I shall dance all my life. […] I would like to die breathless, spent, at…

Microeditorial: Haunting Hamilton

You want to see the musical, Hamilton, but can’t afford see it in person (you’re…

Book Review: Rita Indiana’s La Mucama de Omicunlé

In La Mucama de Omicunlé (Omikunle’s Maid) Rita Indiana Hernández approaches the epistemological marriage of…

Microeditorial: Tending to Our Daughters’ Gardens by Toni Powell-Young and Aisha S. Durham

The language of sustainability is familiar to us even if the word feels foreign. Beneath…

Butterflies Appeared while reading Ways to Disappear

  While reading Idra Novey’s Ways to Disappear, first, there was a woman with a…

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…