December 2020

The pandemic made 2020 a difficult time for acclaimed and emerging poets to share and promote their work. In spite of, or perhaps because of that,...

As we enter what’s sure to be a long, uncertain winter, we are also entering a time that I like to call “long night, long book”...

I’ll be honest: I cannot resist a doctor diary. I want to hear about all the weird medical things and how they all got solved, or...

With new releases from Elena Ferrante, Scholastique Mukasonga, Sayaka Murata, Dubravka Ugresic, and acclaimed translators Ann Goldstein, Jordan Stump, and Ellen Elias-Bursać, this past fall was...

Do your holiday celebrations always go as planned? If they do, you’re luckier than I’ve been in my 42 years on this planet and you’re definitely...

My first cell phone happened when I went away to a small rural college in Iowa. Back then, there were only a couple spots to even...

It’s clear that we love a good horror novel around here. But just because haunting season is over doesn’t mean we’ve stopped with the scary books!...

Content Note: ableist language in context Charles Dickens’s classic novella A Christmas Carol has been adapted countless times. Because this is Ebenezer Scrooge’s conversion narrative, all...

Every so often, I scroll through my to-be-read (or, as they refer to it, Want to Read) list on Goodreads. Sometimes, it’s to reorganize it. Sometimes,...

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