Señora Pérez’s house was too small for the four of us to go inside. El Míster and my abuela waited out front. My mom and me sat at the round table in the corner of the kitchen, my mom stabbing the rotary dial with her index finger. Sra. Pérez sat on her sofa watching a …
Just enough Luis knows I’m not in love with him, although he’s never asked. I can tell by the way he fits himself around the space where the question would go, always aware of the outline of it, the sharp edges that would catch and cut him if he got too close. Some days I …
Today the blinds are open, no matter how hot it is outside. Mom and I look down all twelve floors. My brother’s red car, the size of a pack of cigarettes, parallel parks between a motorcycle and a pickup truck. When he gets out of the car, he’s the size of a matchstick. Some girl …
We are pleased to share this review by Brian Trapp of Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom (Dalkey Archive Press, 2000 edition), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). Nobody reads Stanley Elkin anymore. He’s too perverse, too ironic, too …
We are pleased to share this review by Sonja Livingston of Judith Kitchen’s The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). Twenty years ago I sat with a dying friend in his hospital room. …
We are pleased to share this review by Daniella Toosie-Watson of Carl Phillips’s Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use …
We are pleased to share this review by Yalie Saweda Kamara of Janel Pineda’s Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books, 2020), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here). (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows …
We are pleased to share the entire review feature from Issue 18.2 on joy, hope, and delight, including the following reviews: Sakinah Hofler on Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love (Vintage, 1992 edition) Yalie Saweda Kamara on Janel Pineda’s Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books, 2020) Daniella Toosie-Watson on Carl Phillips’s Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, …
We are pleased to share this review by Sakinah Hofler of Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love (Vintage, 1992), which appeared in Issue 18.2 as part of a special multigenre review feature on joy, hope, and delight (read the entire feature here): There’s a spectacular category of writers I like to call badasses. These writers …
