He's begun to fantasize that our son will wipe my in-laws off the planet

The NYT opinion columnist referred to the National Book Award longlists as “the literary world’s DEI checklist"

An excerpt from BASTARDS by Nate Lippens

"The Bone Hermit," flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal

“Zulum” from INSHALLAH, MADONNA, INSHALLAH by Miljenko Jergović, co-translated and recommended by Ellen Elias-Bursać

Spanning eight decades, these writers use unconventional forms to explore migration, family, gender, grief, and belonging

JUDITH NAMALA author Serubiri Moses explores stories where African girlhood bears the weight of patriarchy and history

I thought I knew the point at which my youth would transform into something else

Three prose poems by Mike Bove

The Booker Prize-winning author on reading his way through writer's block, and why every sentence has to risk going too far

“Phillip Whitney” by Anna Reeser, recommended by Willem Marx for Electric Literature