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Review: MR. AND MRS. DOCTOR by Julie Iromuanya
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor Julie Iromuanya Coffee House Press, 2015 288 pages Buy: book | eBook Job Ogbonnaya is a liar—or, depending on your taste, a dreamer. After his brother Samuel dies in the Biafran...
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An Interview with Jennine Capo Crucet
I first met Jennine on the dance floor in a barn on a summer night at Breadloaf. Or at least I like to remember it that way. She’s an electric person, both in the flesh and on the page. She says the...
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Becoming-Citizen: A Review of NATURALISM by Wendy Xu
Naturalism Wendy Xu Brooklyn Arts Press, Nov 15 2015 42 pp, $5 – $15 Buy: pdf | paperback | signed bundle Wendy Xu’s Naturalism opens with a dedication: “To immigrant parents.” That’s one of the...
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Mirrored Crisis: Contemporary Immigration and Atticus Lish’s PREPARATION FOR...
Photograph by Gustavo Jeronimo Most of us who now call ourselves Americans were at one point something else, or else we owe our citizenship to family members who immigrated. In the brouhaha of fear...
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The Best Essay I Read This Month: “Citizen Khan” by Kathryn Schulz
It is a good thing that Kathryn Schulz’s “Citizen Khan” was published in The New Yorker, because it is so eerily textbook perfect a piece of longform feature writing that had it come through a lesser...
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David Lida’s ONE LIFE is the Injection of Humanity for Your Post-Election Blues
Post-election, I find myself struggling with the same question that’s been plaguing me all year: how should a writer of color engage with hate? Is that even our job at this point? Of course hate is...
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12 Books To Help You Survive 2017 And the Trump Era
Photo by Michael Vadon Since Nov. 8, like millions of others, I’ve been trying to come to grips with Hillary Clinton’s loss. Even writing that sentence was an undertaking. It is not so much that she...
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Review: TELL ME HOW IT ENDS: AN ESSAY IN 40 QUESTIONS by Valeria Luiselli
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions Valeria Luiselli Coffee House Press; April 4, 2017 104 pp; $12.95 Pre-order: paperback Reviewed by Annalia Luna Here’s a challenge: tell me a story,...
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Stories Strangely Told: One Particular Stroller on the Road of Muslim Migration
It starts with a stroller: pink beams, brown fabric; the whole architecture collapsed into branches and leaf-rot and gritty snow. Five of the six wheels—two dual rears and a single front one—point up...
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Beyond Trump’s Wall: Immigrant Literature in Washington, D.C.
Literary Washington, D.C. is populated with characters who have called the city home for generations, but today, about one in seven Washingtonians are immigrants. The demographics of the city have...
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