Edited by Toni Morrison, the 1983 novel ‘Fish Tales’ by Nettie Jones was supposed to set the literary world on fire. It didn’t.
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A Woman’s Search for Salvation, Love, and Family
A woman searches for love and belonging inside and outside of the Christian church.
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School for Girls
Years after recovering from anorexia, Jasmin Sandelson writes a letter to the high school friend she idolized, and explores how hunger, love, and envy shaped — and ended — their relationship.
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My Puppy, Myself
Jason Diamond moves into a new apartment and adopts a dog that begins terrorizing his neighbors.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story, Technology
‘Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’
The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you.
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MACHO: On Black Holes, and the Fantasies of Men
Frances Dodds recalls two men who laid bare the fragile lines between desire, pain and manipulation — and questions the framework of her own fantasies.
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Celebrating a Profound Literary Inheritance: Glory Edim on the Well-Read Black Girl Anthology
Glory Edim talks about editing her new anthology, the push for equity in publishing, and how black women writers have written themselves into spaces that neglect or ignore them.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Secrets We Keep
Deena ElGenaidi takes stock of the truths she and her Muslim family members hide from one another.
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The Secrets We Keep
Deena ElGenaidi takes stock of the truths she and her Muslim family members hide from one another.
Posted inNonfiction
It’s Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer
Hip-hop was a different kind of music that needed a different kind of writer to cover it. This is how Michael A. Gonzales came of age in a time when Black writers began breaking the white ceiling.
