Essays Archives

‘Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America’ Edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding

January 3, 2018 3 min read

Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding's anthology contains essays that will not only inform and provoke us, but that will strengthen our collective resolve. Read More

‘The River of Consciousness’ by Oliver Sacks

Steve Susoyev

Reviews

November 7, 2017 8 min read

The Oliver Sacks Foundation has now released Sacks’s first posthumously published book. There's much to celebrate here Read More

‘We Are Never Meeting in Real Life’ by Samantha Irby

Gena Hymowech

Reviews

August 6, 2017 3 min read

In We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby uses a killer sense of humor to show you that someone else is having as tough a time of it as you are, maybe even tougher Read More

‘A Failure to Communicate’ by S. Andrea Allen

Aries Hines

Fiction

July 30, 2017 3 min read

A Failure to Communicate is a mix of fiction, essays, and criticism, all of which force the stifling impacts of silence to the forefront Read More

‘Equality: What Do You Think About When You Think of Equality?’ Edited by Paul Alan Fahey

Frank Pizzoli

Nonfiction

April 6, 2017 2 min read

Is equality like obscenity?* You’ll know it when you see it?...

‘The Crunk Feminist Collective’ Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn

Aries Hines

Reviews

April 3, 2017 3 min read

The Crunk Feminist Collective, or CFC, in both title and in this collection of essays creates a prolific multi-layered space that exists as a guidebook for survival, methodology, and conversation Read More

‘The War on Sex’ Edited by David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe

Ben Miller

Reviews

March 26, 2017 3 min read

We are living through a little-discussed assault on sexual freedoms that is pioneering new, subtle, and insidious methods of social control: this is the disturbing and difficult-to-refute thesis of The War on Sex Read More

‘Upstream: Selected Essays’ by Mary Oliver

Anne Charles

Nonfiction Reviews

January 25, 2017 2 min read

When Oliver closely observes the natural world, and thus enacts her maxim that “Attention is the beginning of devotion,” she deftly engages the reader with her detailed worldview Read More

‘Falling into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home’ by Catherine Reid

July Westhale

Nonfiction Reviews

March 23, 2014 1 min read

Though the book demonstrates an intimacy as telling as a photo album, the ultimate message of the collection is clear: no matter how deeply you might know a place, the world does not belong to you, and you can claim no ownership. Read More

‘White Girls’ by Hilton Als

Victoria Brownworth

Fiction Nonfiction

November 1, 2013 10 min read

Reading White Girls one comes smack up against the most unpleasant of truths: America is neither post-racial, post-queer, nor post-feminist. Read More

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

‘Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America’ Edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding

‘The River of Consciousness’ by Oliver Sacks

‘We Are Never Meeting in Real Life’ by Samantha Irby

‘A Failure to Communicate’ by S. Andrea Allen

‘Equality: What Do You Think About When You Think of Equality?’ Edited by Paul Alan Fahey

‘The Crunk Feminist Collective’ Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn

‘Upstream: Selected Essays’ by Mary Oliver

‘Falling into Place: An Intimate Geography of Home’ by Catherine Reid

‘White Girls’ by Hilton Als

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta