Meredith Doench is a crime writer located in Dayton, Ohio, and best known for her Luce Hansen series.

On the cover of Angelo Maneage’s THE IMPROPER USE OF PLATES are five dark circles—appropriately, very plate-like—set against an off-white background for contrast.

Asad Haider is Assistant Professor of Politics at York University, a founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, and the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso Books, 2018; reprint: Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology, Verso Books, 2022).

Susan Briante’s Defacing the Monument has won numerous awards since its publication by Noemi Press in August 2020.

This series explores how more private experiences of looking are (or can become) forms of discourse, of collective exchange.

When readers need to know a century’s worth of history to comprehend a novel’s dynamics, a fiction writer confronts a task that may appear simple but is actually excruciatingly difficult.

It is easy to take translation for granted. It is easy to appreciate a text only in its current context, to visualize a listed translator as a talented mathematician with some innate knowledge or intuition for what an original author or source text imagined, performing equations to convert languages for our understanding and pleasure.

Mike DeCapite’s Jacket Weather is the story of a man in his fifties rekindling a relationship with June, a woman with whom he reveled in New York’s thriving punk scene as a youth.

As a poet living in the world where we’re all currently living—especially as someone coming from a marginalized community—I often find myself drawn toward reading and writing poems that deal with the tragic, with the suffering I’ve endured and seen, and do so with some degree of cynicism and/or anger.