5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1640+ words) I'm a woman in my early sixties. Somewhere between late and never. No longer the career woman, mother, housewife and lover doing it all, meeting every demand, and then some, just with my left hand. Now I'm wife, mother, grandmother,…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (483+ words) The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam Mc Gee It seemed like there was something my Dad was trying to express…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (434+ words) If there are two roads in front of us, there are likely four or six or eight others we've yet to consider or are otherwise ignorant of. The choices we're required to make are not binary because reality is not…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (418+ words) Last year, publishing power couple Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman acquired beloved online lit mag The Rumpus. Today, the new leaders celebrated the launch of their rebranded site with new essays, fiction, and a fresh design. The Rumpus was founded…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (173+ words) I've been to several weddings that fundamentally changed everything I thought I knew about the couple getting married, some of which effectively became the endpoints of my friendships with them; no hard feelings, just a champagne drenched conclusion. But I've…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (603+ words) Greg Sarris's first novel, Grand Avenue, an urban Indian story set in Santa Rosa, California, was published in 1994, during the second wave of the Native American Renaissance, which included first novels by Louise Erdrich (Love Medicine), Sherman Alexie (Reservation Blues),…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1047+ words) Picture this: an imposing, three-storey mansion on Calcutta's tree-lined upscale Southern Avenue. The house and its grounds are surrounded by a fifteen-foot-high wall, topped with glittering Sandeep is a plump child with pouty lips and an easy-going disposition; he is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (556+ words) Amitav Ghosh, Ghost-Eye (FSG) "A marvel that will ignite a reader's sense of wonder'a masterful novel, at once simple and capacious." "Rabih Alameddine Joyce Carol Oates, The Frenzy: Stories (Hogarth) "Oates's best work is simmering and remorseless." "Vogue Isabel Waidner,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (554+ words) I've spent much of my career reporting outside the United States, but in recent years, many of my interviews have ended the same way: with questions to me about what is happening at home. The world is watching the changing…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (627+ words) At one point, I am certain it was grand. Those still living in Maplewood hadn't realized that people with real money had already fled to counties not bordering places that poor Black folks called home. They were guarding a memory…...