Evgeniya Dame’s “Mother, Tongue” follows two women navigating a teacher’s training college in Samara, Russia. Language sits at the forefront of the story, less a subject of study for its narrator than…
The Latest
Wendy Xu is a poet and writer, and assistant professor of writing at The New…
If I had to select two words to describe Lauren D. Woods’s short story collection The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe (winner of the 2024 Autumn House Fiction Prize), they would be…
“How do you describe a person?” How do you describe a person? Is it…
Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s The New Economy, published by Copper Canyon Press in October 2025, is a portal of hauntings and extraordinary song, summoning readers to have courage amidst their own sorrows. Calvocoressi honors…
Jennifer Bannan’s latest short story collection, Tamiami Trail: Miami Stories, was released in October 2025.…