Flacking for Facebook
It wasn’t always this way for Mark Zuckerberg. These days, we take almost for granted that when there’s organized political violence in the world, there will...
What Next, After Protest?: An Interview with Ephraim Asili
Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance opens with the protagonist, Julian (Eric Lockley), sorting through a large chest of books in the West Philadelphia house left to him...
9 Books About the Reality of Life on the Internet
When the internet first became part of human life, it began to appear in literature as a source of paranoid anxiety (think Pynchon). For “digital natives”...
7 Intergenerational Novels About Family Lore
When my grandmother was a child, she and her family fled Ukraine to spend the war in a factory town in the Ural Mountains, where her...
Everything I Know About Queer Community I Learned from Swamp Thing
I spent my childhood wondering what I was. I grew up in the ’90s in a sheltered evangelical home in Portland, Oregon, so I didn’t know...
A Group Primal Scream for the Internet
I read A.E. Osworth’s debut novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright, very quickly. The novel is fast-paced, but I couldn’t put it down because the story...
Mixing Politics and Sex with the Diplomat Next Door
“Mini Apple” by Mira Sethi Around 11:00 a.m., slack-limbed and sighing on the toilet seat, eyes closed, Javed heard a rap on the bathroom door. He...
A South Asian Southener’s Political Awakening
Anjali Enjeti’s essay collection, Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, is a discerning look at how to come to terms with the question “Where...
Maybe Depression Is the Natural Reaction to a World Full of Pain
Lauren Hough grew up in The Family, an international doomsday cult that preached free sex as a means to bring you closer to God and corporeal...
I Wrote the Super Queer Novel My Younger Self Needed
When I tell people about the idea behind my debut novel—a fictional town in Kansas is named the most homophobic town in the nation, and a...
