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August 15, 2015 3 min read

Talk is a slender novel narrowly focused on three friends slowly embracing adulthood as the nation prepares to lose much of its innocence. It's blazingly witty, unexpectedly touching, and note-perfect. Read More

‘Let Me Explain You’ by Annie Liontas

July Westhale

Fiction Reviews

August 14, 2015 3 min read

Let Me Explain You is a story about relationships—between sisters, between countrymen, between people and place, between food and memory, between languages, between time and space Read More

Blacklight: Commentary on the Past, Present, and Future of LGBTQ Crime Fiction

John Copenhaver

Mystery Opinion Reviews

August 13, 2015 1 min read

"My hope is that this column will promote quality crime stories written by or about our community..." Read More

‘Skyscraping’ by Cordelia Jensen

Francisco Tirado

Reviews Young Adult

August 13, 2015 3 min read

Captivating you in the first few pages, visionary author Cordelia Jensen has put forth Skyscraping, a semi-autobiographical novel in verse for young readers Read More

Author Quintan Ana Wikswo on the Limitations and Power of Labels

Sara Rauch

Features Interviews

August 12, 2015 19 min read

"Primarily, I wanted to see if I could write a book in which issues of love, erotics, desire, and sex could be momentarily liberated from conventional categorizations of gender identity." Read More

A Poem by Diana Hamilton

Poetry Editor

Poetry Spotlight

August 11, 2015 2 min read

This week, a poem by Diana Hamilton....

New in August: James Sie, David Levithan, Casey McKittrick, and Kim van Alkemade

Edit Team

Features

August 6, 2015 8 min read

New month, new books Read More

‘The Small Backs of Children’ by Lidia Yuknavitch

Stephanie Glazier

Fiction Reviews

August 3, 2015 3 min read

The plot centers on an orphaned child from a war torn Eastern European country, and how her life captivates and unsettles a group of western artists Read More