Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

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Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Threshold

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

'I Think Most People Feel Haunted': An Interview with Sara Peters

The author of Mother of God discusses the limitations of realism, Frank Bidart, and the anguished duality of shame.

The Dead Mall Society

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

Writing Fan Fiction with Margaret Atwood

Talking with the author about her new prison-set adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Hag-Seed.

'I'm Happy When I’m Inside a Book and I’m Not When I’m Not': An Interview with Jonathan Safran Foer

Talking with the author of Here I Am about different notions of home, the downsides of television development, and whether or not he'll ever write another book.

The Three Lives of Malvina Schwartz

Butches, Femmes, and Mobsters: Inside the world of America's early drag superstars.

Skinny Dipping

You wanna make out or something? You know, for comfort?

'He's Going to Go to His Island to Scream': An Interview with Kevin Barry

Talking with the author of Beatlebone about fictionalizing the life of John Lennon, the hard time Kate Bush gets in the book, and why rock novels are almost always disasters.

The Snarling Girl

Notes on—and against—ambition.