A Graceful Way of Breathing: Remembering Anselm Hollo
Kindness, gentleness, delicacy, and a certain modest perspicacity defined Anselm’s approach to others—and to the world at large.
Speak, Disaster: A Climate Change Anthology from India
This ecopoetic anthology searches for a language that could make real, tangible change possible.
Marguerite Yourcenar’s Revenants
Yourcenar’s superb three-volume set of memoirs, is a twentieth-century masterpiece.
Love is a Narrative That Gets Written in Tandem
Imagine two couples, each at home for dinner. The first couple spends the whole meal caressing each other’s hair, calling each other cheesy monikers and, after the meal is finished,…
A River That Flows Toward the Future: The New-Generation African Poets
The New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Akashic Books, 2018) is a work of art as well as a labor of love. Editors Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani midwifed…
Conversations: Nandini Bhattacharya and Clifford Garstang
Nandini Bhattacharya is an academic and author of the novel Love’s Garden (Aubade Publishing, 2020), a work of historical fiction that tells the stories of Indian women caught up in…
A Mind of Winter: Notes on Exile
To be estranged from our countries is to be estranged from some version of our selves.
How Dystopian Narratives Can Incite Real-World Radicalism
Dystopian narratives affected subjects in a profound way, recalibrating their moral compasses.
Thaw & Desire: Heather Treseler’s Parturition
In these poems, Treseler reinvents an expansive New England imaginary.