9 Books About the Reality of Life on the Internet
When the internet first became part of human life, it began to appear in literature as a source of paranoid anxiety (think Pynchon). For “digital natives”...
7 Intergenerational Novels About Family Lore
When my grandmother was a child, she and her family fled Ukraine to spend the war in a factory town in the Ural Mountains, where her...
Everything I Know About Queer Community I Learned from Swamp Thing
I spent my childhood wondering what I was. I grew up in the ’90s in a sheltered evangelical home in Portland, Oregon, so I didn’t know...
A Group Primal Scream for the Internet
I read A.E. Osworth’s debut novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright, very quickly. The novel is fast-paced, but I couldn’t put it down because the story...
Mixing Politics and Sex with the Diplomat Next Door
“Mini Apple” by Mira Sethi Around 11:00 a.m., slack-limbed and sighing on the toilet seat, eyes closed, Javed heard a rap on the bathroom door. He...
A South Asian Southener’s Political Awakening
Anjali Enjeti’s essay collection, Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, is a discerning look at how to come to terms with the question “Where...
Maybe Depression Is the Natural Reaction to a World Full of Pain
Lauren Hough grew up in The Family, an international doomsday cult that preached free sex as a means to bring you closer to God and corporeal...
I Wrote the Super Queer Novel My Younger Self Needed
When I tell people about the idea behind my debut novel—a fictional town in Kansas is named the most homophobic town in the nation, and a...
‘Solar Opposites’ Season 2 gives ‘Rick and Morty’ a run for its money
This post contains relatively minor spoilers for Solar Opposites Season 1 and 2. Solar Opposites, spearheaded by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, always had an...
2 Dead After a Tesla Believed to be Driverless Crashes Into a Tree
Two men died after the Tesla they were riding in, which local authorities believe had no one in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree and...
