Essays
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. (The Hopkins Review)
Interviews
Danielle Lazarin
The author of Back Talk discusses debut collections, fury, and the high-low beauties of her native New York City. (Fiction Writers Review)
Joshua Furst
The author of Short People and The Sabotage Cafe discusses child narrators, Shakespeare, and subversion. His new novel, Revolutionaries is out now. (Fiction Writers Review)
Aravind Adiga
The Booker Prize-winning author of White Tiger and Between the Assassinations discusses modern India, neo-realism, and the films of Ramin Bahrani. (Fiction Writers Review)
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
The author of Picking Bones from Ash discusses different selves in different languages, Children’s Day in Japan, travel fiction, and advice for writer’s at the beginning of a career. (Fiction Writers Review)
Reviews
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.”
“What’s a woman except a shot to the heart that didn’t kill you but won’t heal.”
“... whatever love was, it was also the opposite.”