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

Giving Up the Ghost

Life and death by misadventure.

“This Has to Suck for Me, So It Can Suck More for the Reader”: An Interview with Jess Zimmerman

The author of Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology on body horror, revisiting old LiveJournals and high school Latin teachers.

'That's Where Invention Takes Place': An Interview with Amit Chaudhuri

The author of Finding the Raga on teachers, poetry, and performance. 

'It's Not a Huge Request to Consider Dignity a Right': An Interview with Jakob Guanzon

Talking to the author of Abundance about what’s lacking from literature centring low-income characters, the delicate act of revealing race, and the social utility of fiction.

'Pain is a Thing You Get Used to Navigating in Art': An Interview with Michelle Zauner

Talking to the author of Crying in H Mart about trusting your memory, how writing a book is different from writing a song, and art as an archive.

'Oral History is Its Own Source': An Interview with Sarah Schulman

The author of Let the Record Show on AIDS activism, gossip, and collective memory.