By reading On Animals, I remembered my animals.
Uncoupled Love: A Review of “Marriage Quarantine” by Kate Walbert
Kate Walbert redefines marriage by exploring its disjointed sides during a pandemic.
A Box of Ingredients: Interview with Beth Piatote, Sudden Fiction Guest Judge and Author of The Beadworkers: Stories
I think about other Native people who may read that piece and can, through the piece, feel a connection to those lands...feel that they are there.
Coarsely, Shockingly Real: A Review of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Unlikeable main characters abound in modern fiction, and this novel does not break that mold.
An Element of Sacrifice: Interview with Emily Dezurick-Badran, author of Issue 41 story “Remainder”
Sacrifice can be this totally joyful choice that people make, which is something that I've come to terms with more, recently.
Working with Waves and Watercolors: Interview with Mikaela Kristianous, Artist of Issue 41 Piece Regarding the Sea
I definitely take inspiration from the skies, like I mentioned, flowers, even food: strawberries, raspberries, those kinds of things.
Being Led by Joy: Interview with K-Ming Chang, Author of Issue 41 Story “Haiyang”
I wanted to bring water into these places that are sterile or dry or drought-ridden.
A Love Letter to Slasher Cinema: A Review of My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
A horror novel should hold my attention sooner than eighty percent of the way through the book.
The surprisingly radical politics of Pixar’s WALL-E
It seems that our brave little robot is actually part of a much larger political-ecological revolution.
The Jumper and the Gaijin
Nora learns “gaijin” when she hears the teenagers say it. She’s not heard an adult use it, and when it’s said in her proximity the eikaiwa manager turns stern and scolds the student. So while she knows that it means “outsider,” it must mean something else, something a little shameful, the kind of word said only at home.
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