Stacey Lee explains in her notes at the end of The Downstairs Girl that she […]
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Jonny Diamond shows readers what happens when you give an AI text-generator some o the […]
Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
So many things drew me to Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth: the outstanding the cover, […]
Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward
In Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, the Batiste family is lurching through life. Ever since the children’s […]
Pattern Spotting; Or, Once an English Major, Always an English Major
A couple of weeks ago, in preparation for a research workshop for an upper division […]
How We Disappeared, by Jing-Jing Lee
Trigger warning for rape. The exact number of “comfort women“—women who were enslaved by the […]
To Be Taught, If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers
My brain supplied Becky Chamber’s novella, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, with a soundtrack as […]
Highway of Tears, by Jessica McDiarmid
Since the 1970s, thousands of Indigenous teenaged girls and women along Highway 16 in British […]
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It’s strange to think of poetry as a party favor, but Benjamin Aleshire was once […]
The Dead Girls Club, by Damien Angelica Walters
Heather Cole has used the time since her best friend died at age 12 to […]