The Dead Mall Society

Standing in the wreckage of these spaces unlocks a sensation people often crave, but can’t name.

Picture This: You're a Frog

It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.

Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

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The Dead Mall Society

Standing in the wreckage of these spaces unlocks a sensation people often crave, but can’t name.

Picture This: You're a Frog

It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.

The Empty Tune

“Bird,” he cried, “I come on behalf of the emperor. Your voice is all anyone speaks of.”

Soul Blind

On interrogating fear and what bats can teach about human connection.

The Creature

She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.

Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

Where Are All These Journalists Going to Get a Sense of Self from Now?

Maybe I like being defined by my work! Did you ever think of THAT???

Illegal Bride

Days after Anna Kashfi wed the actor Marlon Brando, doubts about her purported Indian heritage surfaced, destroying her Hollywood career and branding her a liar. The truth was more complicated than anyone knew.

Post-Conflict Combatant

They were no longer comrades, but post-conflict combatants. The war is over, he said, a phrase he would keep repeating throughout the day without emotion. It’s over.

A Requiem for Pitchfork

There’s a difference between a critic and a fan, but the line between them is receding from view.

Six Miles from the Mouth of the River

Who are land acknowledgements for?

'She is a Witness to the Course of History': An Interview with Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon

The authors of The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle on creation stories, narrating suppressed accounts, and exposing subjectivity.