Kate Schifani’s memoir, Cartography, maps faulty practices and question of fault over her year serving in Iraq as an …
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New Nonfiction from Kristina Usaite: “Against a Cruel Society, I Came Out to Myself”
When I was losing myself, the only thing that saved me was immigrating to America. Only then, with great effort and s…
New Nonfiction from James Warren Boyd: “The Ecstasy of Sister Bernadette”
In seventh grade my Catholic elementary school received a new principal, Sister Bernadette, who strode onto the black…
New Fiction from Rufi Thorpe: An Excerpt from ‘The Knockout Queen’
The following excerpt of The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe is reprinted with permission by A.A. Knopf. When I was ele…
A Review of Rufi Thorpe’s New Novel ‘The Knockout Queen,’ by Andria Williams
“Who deserves anything?” asks Lorrie Ann, one of the protagonists of Rufi Thorpe’s first novel, The Girls from Corona…
“All. art. is. political:” An interview with Roy G. Guzmán and Miguel M. Morales
Our two featured poems for the month are selections from Roy G. Guzmán and Miguel M. Morales’s anthology, Pulse…
New Poetry from Nicole Oquendo and James A.H. White
The following poems are reprinted with permission from the anthology Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando (Damaged …