We Still Can’t Stop Talking About Barbie
AM Homes and MG Lord on “A Real Doll” and the plastic icon’s enduring legacy
Diego Gerard Morrison's novel “Pages of Mourning” is a satirical look at the impact of U.S. drug consumption on Mexicans caught in cartel violence
Kuchenga Shenjé, author of "The Library Thief," recommends stories that delve into race and identity in the U.S. and U.K.
Who am I without the illness I’ve always lived with?
Kaliane Bradley recommends books that grapple with the chimera that is the experienced and imagined Britain
“River, Love,” flash fiction by CB Anderson
When he quit drinking, Michael Deagler was disappointed to find a lack of novels about recovery, so he wrote one
From the pontianak of Malay lore to the Chinese fox spirit, these stories draw from folktales as old as time
Ellen van Neerven's "Personal Score" is a kaleidoscopic essay collection that explores the intersections between soccer, colonization, gender, race, and environmental crises
These generation-spanning sagas examine the ways our ancestral history haunts us
“A Brief, Inevitable Exchange” by Billy Chew, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
Amy Key recommends books from across the world about solitude and its pleasures, desires and conflicts
Nella Larsen’s “Passing” asks us to sit with the anxieties of motherhood