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It’s Time To Reinvent the Trope of the Monster Husband
Michele Kirichanskaya interrogates love stories that require redemption
Jul 25 - Michele Kirichanskaya
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The Bluest Crab at Grandpa’s Funeral
"Carapace" by Matthew Ryan Frankel, winner of the 2023 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize
May 31 - Matthew Ryan Frankel
Fiction
Luis Alberto Urrea Writes Like He’s a Mexican Faulkner
The author of "Good Night, Irene" on his mentor Ursula Le Guin and turning his mother's WWII memories into a novel
May 31 - Kristen Millares Young
Interviews
7 Arab and Arab Diasporic Novels about Storytellers
Stories that counter-colonize the Western narrative and reclaim cultural agency
May 30 - Sarah Cypher
Reading Lists
“The Mermaid Has to Die”
In Julia Langbein's novel "American Mermaid," a writer's Hollywood adaptation of her book goes hilariously awry
May 30 - Abigail Oswald
Interviews
Bullshitting Our Way Through a Long Beijing Summer
"On the Rooftop" from BEIJING SPRAWL by Xu Zechen, recommended by Jeremy Tiang
May 29 - Xu Zechen
RR Issue No. 576
9 Love Stories for Every Decade of Life
A reading list for hopeless romantics at any age
May 29 - Nzinga Temu
Reading Lists
The (Mis)Translation of Filipino History
Gina Apostol’s novel “La Tercera” blurs the line between traitors and heroes to ask hard questions about complicity
May 26 - Jaeyeon Yoo
Interviews
Booktails from the Potions Library, with Mixologist Lindsay Merbaum
Curl up with a mocktail and Claire Vaye Watkins “I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness” while you search for home
May 26 - Lindsay Merbaum
Reading Lists
9 Poetry Collections About Illnesses That We Don’t Talk About
Celeste Lipkes, author of “Radium Girl,” recommends poems confronting difficult-to-discuss medical diagnoses
May 26 - Celeste Lipkes
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