The End of the World Feels Like Nothing
“A Brief, Inevitable Exchange” by Billy Chew, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
“A Brief, Inevitable Exchange” by Billy Chew, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
Amy Key recommends books from across the world about solitude and its pleasures, desires and conflicts
Nella Larsen’s “Passing” asks us to sit with the anxieties of motherhood
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SupportThe author talked about her mythic triptych, rethinking the novel form as a quilt, writing about climate justice, and queer futurity
Characters experiencing geographical and emotional displacement who redefine their relationships, and themselves, on new grounds
I tell Mom that if I die first, I will wait for her. My mother tells me she will do the same.
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“A Brief, Inevitable Exchange” by Billy Chew, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
Three poems by Mary Jo Bang
“I Heard My Son Kissing a Girl” from SEE: LOSS. SEE ALSO: LOVE. by Yukiko Tominaga, recommended by Weike Wang