Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews, Uncategorised

BOOK REVIEW: PINA

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Pina, which won the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize, is a rebuke of the romanticised ideals of Tahiti and its golden sands.

by Katy Ward • August 18, 2022August 15, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE MISSING WORD

De Gregorio interrogates the classic missing person mystery and finds a deeper mystery hidden within – that of missing identity,

by Robert Montero • August 15, 2022August 15, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Hey, Bob, Aren’t Ya Talkin’?

He turns into the hallway, walks its length, then grabs the gold knob on the storage room door. Locked. He walks back to the men’s restroom. Also locked. He knocks.

by Jeff Blechle • August 14, 2022July 26, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Wartime Generations

The day was beautiful. Perhaps it was a good day to die for the right reasons.

by Jason Arment • August 7, 2022July 26, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Out

All day you are outside, walking, alone. The businesses, save for a few, are dark and shuttered, the streets empty.

by Aube Rey Lescure • August 6, 2022August 1, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Vice & Hurricanes

I knocked at every registered address on the island that ever voted Democrat. And with it, experienced the culture of Galveston like accidentally swallowing the Atlantic ocean instead of a ...

by Robin Doody • July 31, 2022July 26, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Voice Lessons

My goal is to reclaim what was lost.

by Nadja Maril • July 30, 2022July 29, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: THE FORGERY

Art doesn’t just provide discrete instances of ways of seeing the world, alternative encounters with it into which we can enter while looking at a painting or TV show. Rather, ...

by Ben Philipps • July 28, 2022July 29, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Teach

Photo by Eric and Mary Ellen. So the teaching associate, we called him “Teach,” but we meant no disrespect by that, it’s just that the name sort of fit because he’s ...

by Larry Smith • July 24, 2022July 7, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

On a Clear Night in California

Above all, my father was benevolent; a man of the people, and of all living creatures.

by Erin Offland • July 23, 2022July 22, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE FAMILIA GRANDE

We tend to think of guilt as having a straight-forward relationship with wrong-doing. We are taught that if you do something wrong, you will feel guilty and if you haven’t ...

by Andy Charman • July 22, 2022July 22, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Once a Smoker, Always a Smoker

  “I don’t know why you wanted to meet here of all places.” She said it in a voice of perfect exasperation that was all at once disheartening and tenderly familiar ...

by Travis Cohen • July 17, 2022June 30, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, short story

BOOK REVIEW: HERE BE ICEBERGS

Katya Adaui sexamines the tangled knot of everyday ties that bind us – for better or worse.

by Jennifer Brough • July 14, 2022July 6, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Promise

In his mind Harold prepared a speech. If Maggie was going to fire him for stealing food, well, OK, it might’ve happened but he’d never gone overboard, and he supposed ...

by Charles Holdefer • July 10, 2022June 30, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Summer of Acceptance

I was sixteen and mesmerized by the graffiti – framed by tunnels, bridges, and walls of industrial buildings. It seemed the only view on an Amtrak train from Springfield, Mass ...

by John Chambers • July 10, 2022July 10, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: THE MEMBRANES

In the 22nd century, humanity has scorched the earth. Attempts to undo the catastrophic results of global warming have proved futile, and a new kind of “Noah’s Arc” has been ...

by Eleanor Keisman • July 7, 2022July 18, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Tunneling

Weasel is following me, panting, on hands and knees, through a passage we call Route 66, even though it’s only a hundred feet long, the diameter of a barrel hoop, ...

by Richard Holeton • July 3, 2022June 30, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE BIRTH OF EMMA K.

The uncertainty at the core of these stories seems endless. The only thing that we can take for granted is that nothing can be taken for granted.

by John Riley • June 30, 2022June 24, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Cat Sitting, Editing, and the Light Behind the Curtain

Paul pulled his sedan over to the curb in front of the house. The sedan’s battered engine rattled ominously as Paul shifted into reverse. Paul, used to the auditory threat ...

by Spencer Linford • June 26, 2022June 24, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Nostalgia, circa 1960’s

The Wikipedia tour guide spiel It would be my time at the Beauty Pageant metropolis that summer. We start at the majestic Marlborough Blenheim Hotel at Nineteen Hundred Pacific Avenue and ...

by Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi • June 25, 2022June 24, 2022