Issue 54 Fall 2025

Sarah Southern reviews Christina Rivera's My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women, finding "ocean isn’t so much the theme of this book as its essence."

“To name the soils that you come from is to acknowledge that you were not self-made, because there is no such thing as a self-made human.

Corky the Orca’s cries from captivity have shattered glass. I know the feeling.

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In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.