April is Autism Acceptance Month. This is probably not in your calendar, nevertheless it’s particularly necessary within the literary neighborhood. The world didn’t see an autistic creator for a very long time; not as a result of they didn’t exist, however as a result of they lived in a world that believed they couldn’t. Autism […]

Picture by fauxels At this time’s publish is by creator Elle Jauffret. When creating memorable characters, few components carry them to life as vividly as the best way they converse. Speech patterns—whether or not accents or impediments—shortly set up background, character, and historical past with out exposition. Nonetheless, as writers, we supply a big accountability: […]

Picture by Demianastur / Adobe Inventory The surplus of capitalism is the backdrop in Rosalie Moffett’s Making a Residing (Milkweed, 2025), and on the foreground: motherhood, debt, forest fires, and a speaker who’s deep down like everybody “obsessive about dreaming / up the long run, with hell, with all / that spares us.” All through Moffett’s third […]

Proper now, you’re behind me, inside studying distance on the freeway, on the stoplight, within the parking zone, possibly within the drive-thru line, or maybe in my very personal driveway (anyplace however a gasoline station, actually), and I do know what you’re considering. However earlier than you kind one other thought, you’re going to wish […]

Nettie Pearl Jones, 1984. {Photograph} by Fern Logan. Fish Tales, first printed in 1983, is a novel informed briefly, vivid vignettes. A lady named Lewis comes of age hardscrabble in early sixties Detroit. It was a troublesome time to be born a woman. Lecturers slept with college students with out consequence; an sudden being pregnant […]

Il 25 aprile è un’occasione per riflettere sul senso della memoria, della partecipazione e del racconto. È in questo spirito che si è svolto, presso la biblioteca “Stefano Rodotà” del Liceo Classico “Bernardino Telesio” di Cosenza, il sesto appuntamento della Decina 2025 del Premio Sila ‘49. Protagonista dell’incontro è stata Nicoletta Verna, che ha presentato […]

The censorship tales have been coming laborious and quick this week. Probably the most distinguished one is the Supreme Court docket deliberating on a Maryland case that will permit mother and father to choose their youngsters out of lessons that point out the existence of LGBTQ+ individuals. Justice Neil Gorsuch claimed the image ebook Satisfaction […]

Poet and former Nationwide Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia has been busy. He’s simply printed a spate of recent books: Poetry as Enchantment and Different Essays (Paul Dry Books); Dana Gioia: Poet & Critic (Mercer College Press, edited by John Zheng and Jon Parrish Peede); and final and shortest (205 pages), Weep, Shudder, […]

April 24, 2025, 3:48pm This political second in America has been chilling totally free speech and dissent, however like so many issues about America, this authorities and vigilante repression isn’t new. Earlier than Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Mohsen Mahdawi talking out in opposition to struggle and genocide, there have been Artwork Younger, Max Eastman, […]

When The Ocean Retreats by Mariana Serapicos My dad was cremated in Birkenstocks. He needed his toes to breathe. The sandals had been brown, measurement 9, formed after his stride. A few years later, I picked out a pair—to search out my steps with out him.  I can nonetheless scent him on me. Manuel, Mané, […]