culture
Interactive Fiction Lets Diverse Characters Be the Heroes
Choose Your Own Adventure stories challenge the idea of a universal protagonist
Aug 29 - Jessica Xing
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7 Novels About People Feeling Out of Place
Jeff Boyd, author of "The Weight," recommends books about finding belonging in an environment of otherness
Jun 6 - Jeff Boyd
Reading Lists
We Are Gathered Here Today to Eat, Drink, and Be Ruthless
"Wedding Party" from DIRECT SUNLIGHT by Christine Sneed, recommended by Elizabeth McKenzie
Jun 5 - Christine Sneed
RR Issue No. 577
7 Books by Southern African Women You Should Be Reading
Magogodi oaMphela Makhene, author of "Innards," recommends stories spanning South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia
Jun 5 - Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
Reading Lists
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
