This Week in Essays
“All black boys go to heaven, but they go to the pavement first.” In a searingly beautiful essay for The Offing, Kelsey Norris relates how futile it is to try and protect a black boy in this world. “I...
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Andrea Lawlor’s debut novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, was released November 2017 from Rescue Press to widespread acclaim, including a starred review from Kirkus. Maggie Nelson calls the...
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B. Alexandra Szerlip takes us through the really cool history of invisible ink at The Believer. “Then, held in the tender heat of early summer, you begin to bleed and bleed and soon enough the idea of...
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For Slate, Tre Johnson writes on the juxtaposition between black erasure and the prominence of black music. At Words without Borders, Shanaz Habib looks at the empathy-inducing claims of literature, in...
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For Naihobe Gonzalez, writing at The Offing, continual blackouts lead to a tenuous living situation. At Entropy, Claire Sicherman and Marissa Korbel explore the tribulations of adolescence. “Instead,...
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Jesmyn Ward pens an absolutely devastating piece on the death of her husband for Vanity Fair. “I now know that you were waiting to die and every day that you lived, you were surprised.” For Granta,...
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For the Paris Review, Sabrina Orah Mark writes on the elusive nature of hope. Here at The Rumpus, Mo Daviau deals with love and money in the pandemic. “In Berlin, he sweat and sweat like a hairy...
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For Lit Hub, Jackie Polzin writes on revisiting the pleasures of letter writing during the pandemic. At MUTHA Magazine, Devorah Heitner writes on the mutability of pandemic fears. For The Believer,...
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For The Walrus, Viviane Fairbank takes a hard look at the power of fact-checking in a world that no longer values facts. “But queer business casual, a concept that both mortified and engrossed me,...
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For Guernica, George L. Hickman digs up the archeological moments of a life. At Catapult, R. Y. watches her father juggle business dealings and a life-long slingshot hobby. Sally Wen Mao contemplates...
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