In 1978, James Baldwin began working on a screenplay for Giovanni’s Room, his most beloved work. For the past forty years, though, the script has been shelved in a London flat.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Quotes
A Mother’s Less-Than-True Story of Being a Child Bride
Getting married in her swimsuit at the age of 12 was something Danny Wallace’s mother would tell anyone she met. It also wasn’t true.
Posted inNonfiction
Family Animals
In an excerpt from her new memoir, Grace Talusan fondly remembers the badly behaved dog that won her skeptical father’s heart.
Posted inReading List
Alternative Reality: An Alt-Weekly Reading List
Nine excellent stories discovered in U.S. alt-weekly newspapers.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing
The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
When ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Isn’t Fiction
Growing up in the fundamentalist Christian “Quiverfull” movement, Hännah Ettinger saw her own story in Atwood’s vision.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
But What Will Your Parents Think?
Morgan Jerkins tackles the time-worn question of how far is too far to go in revealing yourself in first-person writing.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
But What Will Your Parents Think?
Morgan Jerkins tackles the time-worn question of how far is too far to go in revealing yourself in first-person writing.
Posted inEditor's Pick
And How Much of These Hills Is Gold
In this short story, the children of Chinese miners in the frontier West struggle to survive after their parents’ death.
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Month in Books: ‘Everything That We Are and Ever Have Been’
This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about identities — mistaken, misunderstood, transformed, false, false, fictional, or as anonymous as the op-ed.
