A new entry into the “queer weird-girl lit-fic” canon.
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“The Moonlight Healers” is an Empathetic, Meditative Decade-Spanning Debut
A review of Elizabeth Becker’s new novel, “The Moonlight Healers.”
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New Ecopoetry Pleads for Our Broken yet Enduring Planet
A review of “Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology,” edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura Gray-Street.
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If You Don’t Slow Down, You’ll Miss It: A Closer Look at Life in “No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity”
A review of A. Kendra Greene’s essay collection “No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity.”
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“Fragments” Is Filled with Want, Traverses through Heartbreak
Tsang has wonderful use of language and metaphor, melding together honest trains of thought and poetic emotion reminiscent of Ocean Vuong.
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“Tar Hollow Trans” Is Beautifully Goth and Full of Appalachian Queerness
Stacy Jane Grover’s “Tar Hollow Trans” is an essay collection about spending one’s life on the margins.
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Fluidity in History: Tara Roberts’ “Written in the Waters”
Reading Written in the Waters by Tara Roberts was a profound emotional journey into the heaviness of the past and how history moves fluidly into the beauty and problems of the present.
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Seasons of Grief in “The Tears of Things”
A review of Catherine Hamrick’s poetry collection “The Tears of Things.”
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The Humanity and Humor of “Origin Stories”
At a lecture she gave recently at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the world-renowned curator Ronni Baers juxtaposed images of two self-portraits: one by Gerrit Dou and one by Rembrandt. In the former, the artist sits within a grand imaginary niche, elegantly clutching the tools of his trade. A rich woven carpet hangs to…
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“¡Somos Tejanas!” Is an Anthology of Resistance and Resilience
An anthology that explores the layered, often contested identity of Tejana women.
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