Bitchcraft is a variety show hosted by the comedic powerhouse Selena Coppock and Lauren Maul in New York City. Here, the founders of the show share some of their favorite things, which includes the radio show Sophisticated Boom Boom, Kacey Musgraves’s newest album, and Grease 2.
Read MoreWriter Vyasar Ganesan is currently working on a project about Indian food in America, which he wrote about in his graduate thesis “Indian Food in America: The 6 Essentials.” He is based in Austin, Texas.
Read MoreWith Seattle’s annual Short Run convention just around the corner — an underground comics and art festival — it seems fitting to chat with an illustrator who’ll be boothing at the event this year: Myra Lara. While she’s long been interested in comics, she’s especially focused her energy on it in recent years, getting published in various comics publications in the city (like Thick as Thieves) and an Ignatz-nominated anthology, La Raza Anthology: Unidos y Fuertes.
Read MoreBates is known for her poetry comics, an emerging hybrid genre which applies the lyric sensibility of poetry to hand-drawn images. Fields talks to Bates in episode one of Art in Conversation, a new podcast hosted by Manola Secaira.
Read MoreMadame Nielsen’s novel The Endless Summer is an elegy for youth, a sensuous reflection on its fleeting promise and unrealized possibilities. Nielsen touches on gender, sexuality, love, death, and art, but, like her characters, those themes largely remain archetypal, opaque. Rather, Nielsen emphasizes the power of language in memorializing life, in imbuing it with meaning.
Read MoreThis week in “things we like,” essayist and artist Aisha Mirza shares with us some of their favorite things, which includes a blog about Afrofuturism and the Caribbean and African diaspora in Britain, the music of Kadhja Bonet, and their grandmother’s mince puff pastries.
Read MoreBrandon Jordan Brown is a Portland, Oregon-based poet who frequently collaborates with filmmakers and other artists. Here, he shares with us some of the things he likes, including theopoetics, C.D. Wright’s Deepstep Come Shining, and the Japanese band toe.
Read MoreFady Joudah’s stunning Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance feels like slowly remembering pieces of a dream. The book of poems examines reanimation in a multitude of forms—reanimation of body, of memory, of myth, and of emotion.
Read MorePerennial, Kelly Forsythe’s debut poetry collection, tackles a subject that has become unfortunately ubiquitous in American culture: the Columbine High School shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999.
Read MoreA look at the new wave of successful young poets representing the diversity of American identity, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend gets adapted to an HBO series, two writers discuss writing transness in transgressive language, and more.
Read MoreYoung Latinx Artists 23: Beyond Walls, Between Gates, Under Bridges asked up-and-coming Latinx artists and curators to consider and explore the border between the U.S. and Mexico, a flashpoint for so much contemporary political sorrow and strife.
Read MoreYoko Tawada’s The Emissary, newly translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, takes place following an unnamed disaster which causes Japan to completely cut itself off from the world.
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