Interview: Danielle Lazarin
"It took me writing these stories to understand that I'd been carrying rage with me, and what I'd done to suppress it even as I didn't believe in suppressing it."
—Danielle Lazarin
The author of Back Talk discusses debut collections, fury, and the high-low beauties of her native New York City.
And Then Something Terrible Happened: William Steig’s Children’s Books
An essay on the darkness and longing at the heart of William Steig’s picture books.
Interview: Joshua Furst
“Children are still impressionable enough to be testing out various belief systems. For them, the fault lines between ideology and realty become much more apparent much more quickly, to deeply intellectually-devastating effect.”
—Joshua Furst
The author of Short People and The Sabotage Cafe discusses child narrators, Shakespeare, and subversion. His new novel, Revolutionaries is out now.
Review: Rise by L. Annette Binder
“Her front teeth overlapped a little, and her hair never stayed the way it should, and all these things she hated were the ones he loved best.”
—from “Nod” by L. Annette Binder
The stories in Rise convey the darkness preceding the dawn with a clarity and precision that make even their pain a pleasure.
Review: Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
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—from Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
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