Her Baby Is a Stranger She Doesn’t Want to Know
"The Box Where Baby Slept" by Mario Giannone, recommended by Wynter K Miller for Electric Literature
"The Box Where Baby Slept" by Mario Giannone, recommended by Wynter K Miller for Electric Literature
"Mom on the Beach," flash fiction by Jimmy Kindree
"None of That" from SEVEN EMPTY HOUSES by Samanta Schweblin, recommended by Lynn Steger Strong
Enter a queer Asian American multiverse through Chen Chen's poetry collection "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency"
Myths about monstrous vaginas and the evils of female pleasure help maintain worldwide patriarchy
An excerpt of ELSEWHERE by Alexis Schaitkin, recommended by Ali Benjamin
Karen Jennings, author of "An Island," on living in isolation and the universal trend towards far-right conservatism
A former librarian pushes against the romanticization of what libraries are and who they are for
The contributors of "Letter to a Stranger" recommend books about life-changing interactions with unknown people
Azar Nafisi on how bearing witness to the world through literature can be a form of activism