The Commuter
My Student Loans Would Prefer Me Dead
Two Federal Loan Forgiveness form erasures by Julia Carey
Apr 17 - Julia Carey
POPULAR in
I Think of My Book As A Naked Version of Myself
I invite readers to ogle my writing in the same way they’ll gaze at the shirtless man on the cover
Jun 2 - Manuel Betancourt
books
9 Novels Honoring Women’s Unseen Contributions to Science
C. E. McGill, author of "Our Hideous Progeny," recommends books that fill in the gaps your history textbooks missed
Jun 2 - C. E. McGill
Reading Lists
I Chose Life and a Second Adolescence
I bore the weight of being a Chinese boy remarkably well considering that I was actually a girl
Jun 1 - Summer Tao
Both/And
10 Queer Horror Books Coming Out in 2023
New spooky stories to continue a queer tradition
Jun 1 - Lisa Zhuang
Reading Lists
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
