Reading Lists
8 Dark Academia Novels Set in Art School
What happens when ambition and talent go awry?
May 27 - Laura Leffler
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For These Poets, Feral Girl Summer Is an Eternal State of Mind
These poetry collections refuse to be palatable or cave to curated perfection
May 12 - Maria Giesbrecht
Reading Lists
A Debut Novel Where Plastic Surgery Obscures and Reveals a Mother’s True Self
Through cosmetic surgery and reality TV, Sarah Wang's "New Skin" tells a mother-daughter story of immigration and assimilation
May 12 - Cherry Lou Sy
interviews
His Girlfriend’s Love Is as Poisonous as a Mushroom
“Wild Food” from THE GOOD EYE by Jess Gibson, recommended by Molly McGhee
May 11 - Jess Gibson
RR Issue No. 729
Reckoning With the Desires of China’s One-Child Generation
M Lin’s debut story collection “The Memory Museum” examines women forging identities that transcend the U.S.-Chinese binary
May 11 - Rebecca Bihn-Wallace
interviews
7 Books About Women Migrant Workers
These stories attend to the realities of labor and trace the intersections of gender, economics, and migration
May 8 - Chanel Sutherland
Reading Lists
A Campus Novel For a Post-Ironic World
Debut novelist Avigayl Sharp discusses Nabokov, sincerity, and writing trauma without revealing it in “Offseason”
May 8 - Lennie Roeber-Tsiongas
interviews
I Wasn’t Excited for My Top Surgery. That Doesn’t Negate My Desire for It
Expansion doesn’t have to be sure or aware of itself
May 7 - Billy Lezra
Personal Narrative
8 Thought-Provoking Books About Reality TV
For these authors, reality TV is a genre full of rich texts that reflect our contemporary social and economic structure
May 7 - Ilana Masad & Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais
Reading Lists
The Delicious Hell of a New Jersey Sex Dungeon
Two poems by Nat Mesnard
May 6 - Nat Mesnard
poetry
Writing Is a Way to Have Futurity
“The Future” author Monica Ferrell on motherhood, mortality, and how writing carries part of us into the future
May 6 - Zachary Pace
interviews
7 Novels About Dysfunctional (But Charming) Families
These family portraits are full of chaos and sometimes sadness, but also deep love
May 5 - Jessika Bouvier
Reading Lists
A Novel That Refuses the Korean War’s Erasure
Eve J. Chung's “The Young Will Remember” centers the silenced survivors of the "Forgotten War" and asks what patriotism demands
May 5 - Cherry Lou Sy
interviews
