Readings

A mother reaches out to her child
What Does A Mother Sound Like?

Who decided that women get to be society's sounding board for words that feel like shadows?

A portrait of the author
Brat Girl Summer

Charli xcx brings the club to the world.

A woman wears a headscarf that becomes a topographical map of rivers and mountains
Land of Five Rivers

Partition, climate change, my grandmother, and me.

A person stands in the middle of a body of waterm holding a bird. Waves, animals and the sun turn toward them.
Fractal / Flood

a found poem from the Letters of William Blake (1980)

an illustration of the author
When it Comes to Cookbooks, Who's a Critic?

 A good cookbook can be mind-opening, read for or looked at for pleasure, despite having middling recipes. An excellent one can be a tool and art one in the same.

Carleigh Baker
The Inside is Rotten

As our collective fears shift, so too do the monsters that stand in for them.

Diptych of book and author Elisa Gabbert
Which of Our Thoughts Are Interesting?: An Interview with Elisa Gabbert

The author of Any Person Is the Only Self on authorial trust, the occult of reading, and circles of heightened attention.

An employees-only sign beside a road in Big Ben National Park. There are mountains in the background.
Home for a Season

Living and working in National Parks.