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The Blades

“The body politic existed as it should; the blade grew to join the body as it should; the body bowed to the wind — all as it should.”

by Sam Himmelfarb on August 6, 2022August 5, 2022

iPhone Reflections

“Looking back at it now, it feels like that iPhone 6s was like an omnipresent eye throughout my adolescence, there to capture and see it all, completely unfiltered.”

by Rebecca Cao on August 6, 2022August 5, 2022

Mango Mind-Body Problem

“Aam belongs in the homeland, the body says.”

by Mollika Singh on August 6, 2022August 6, 2022

Cynical Optimism

A writer probes the all-too-cheery world of an optimist.

by Anya Miller on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022

Rumination

“I think often about this evening, and what my friend as trying to tell me. Something about appearances, how things seldom are how they seem? But this is too banal, and she is clever.”

by Daniel Viorica on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022

The Rains of Macondo: Relevance, Our Country Friends, and the Literature of the Pandemic

“The rain described by García Márquez seemed compellingly similar to the virus that had upended my own life and the lives of so many others: impersonal, unrelenting, and showing no sign of ending any time soon.”

by Tommy Goulding on April 10, 2022April 10, 2022

My Mother, the Dumping Ground

“I love my mother, but how is anyone supposed to respond to an endless bucket of support?”

by Amaya Dressler on April 10, 2022April 10, 2022

Persimmons of another tree: a transfem’s song of love and rejuvenation

“When I say room I mean this space that contains me. / When I say this space that contains me I mean I fill this space. / When I say I fill this space I mean this space is my body.”

by Sophie Lockwood on March 27, 2022March 27, 2022

Nothing Like Mom’s Cooking: Reflections from Professor Mommy’s Daughter

A reflection on the nourishment our mothers provide, both physical and emotional.

by Kristiana Filipov on March 27, 2022March 27, 2022

To See Something And Say Something

“To ask people to tell what’s suspicious and unusual is to expose innocent individuals to a system that constantly profiles and projects fear, to always assume the worst.”

by Kate Lee on March 20, 2022March 25, 2022

Things So Obvious They Almost Make No Sense: Defamiliarization and the Default in Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From

“I couldn’t discern an agenda, political, spiritual, or otherwise, and yet the novel felt anything but aimless. Primarily, it read and resonated like poetry.”

by Lara Katz on March 20, 2022March 25, 2022

Mud

“There is no membrane between my body and the earth; it’s the kinship of mud on mud.”

by Sabrina Kim on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022


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