Writing Silence in Fiction: Craft Review of Natalia Theodoridou’s Sour Cherry
Mialise Carney reviews Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou, a reimagining of Bluebeard stories
What We’re Reading
What We’re Reading: Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie
A book of nonfiction written like a novel, moving with and then past the genre of true crime
What We’re Reading: In Kind
In her debut full-length poetry collection, IN KIND, Maggie Queeney interrogates how trauma is embodied and how rebirth is necessary for survival.
What We’re Reading: Crooked Smiling Light
Violence, King argues, is something Black men must inherit to survive even their own blood.
What We’re Reading: Each One a Furnace
Oloruntoba manages to capture the uneasiness of living through the last few years’ quasi-apocalypse.
What We’re Reading: Concentrate
In her debut poetry collection, Courtney Faye Taylor underscores the importance of more honest witnessing, of a history that includes all the moving parts, including ourselves.
A Love Letter to Cli-Fi
Floods and dustbowls, hopes and fears, climate fiction has it all—and isn’t going anywhere.
What We’re Reading: Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel stumbles in its representation of AI consciousness.
What We’re Reading: Finding Neurokin in Madeleine Ryan’s A Room Called Earth
A Room Called Earth and other autistic narratives challenge the false pathological stories society tells about our neurotype.
What We’re Reading . . . During These Times
As we work remotely, we wanted to share some reading for quarantine, to delve deep into the idea of pandemics, escape that topic, or just find something good to cook.