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Ways to Become Unpinnable: Talking with Natalie Diaz

You might have an image of who Natalie Diaz is in your head. I saw her as an indigenous poet with a powerfully multicultural, queer voice. Her poems express complex images, including the torture of...

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Inevitable Uncertainties: A Conversation with Joyce Hinnefeld

Joyce Hinnefeld and I met in Pennsylvania, when we were both teaching college there, and we would often discuss writing, politics, and life. I have long admired the power, grace, and intelligence of...

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The Lonesome Home: A Conversation with Aria Aber

In her debut poetry collection Hard Damage, recipient of the 2019 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Aria Aber’s polyglot genius is on full display. And as the Chicago Review of Books accurately...

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Constant Motion: Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

There was a time when Marcelo Hernandez Castillo made a secret of his life. Hernandez Castillo, who crossed the Mexican border with his family at the age of five, grew up in the shadow of his father’s...

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Masters of Movement: A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins

“No one spoke about the past—the goal was to move forward and never look back,” Morgan Jerkins says of her family in the prologue to her latest book Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great...

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On Empathy, Complexity, and Whimsy: Talking with Aimee Nezhukumatathil

It may seem like a dramatic departure for Aimee Nezhukumatathil to move into nonfiction with her new book, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. She has an...

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Diaspora, Reconstructed

The most I’ve seen of Kashmir is from videos my father took in the ’90s, visiting his birthplace shortly after marrying my mother. My favorite is less than a minute long: a field of yellow flowers, the...

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Westward, Onward

The sunset seems to linger for hours, a band of orange stubbornly refusing to fade into the blue black of night. But finally, the strange silhouettes of the Joshua trees become indistinguishable in the...

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Other Stories, Other Lives: Life among the Terranauts by Caitlin Horrocks

Winter is a dismal stretch in small Midwestern towns, where the temptation to hibernate can be overwhelming. So, why not just check out for a few of the most trying months and reemerge in the spring?...

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Pockets of Belonging: Wandeka Gayle’s Motherland: And Other Stories

In the essay “My Father’s Land,” Courtney Desiree Morris writes that while colonizers have preserved the monuments to their history in their plantation homes, statues, and obelisks, “the descendants of...

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