by Olivia Joyce | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020, Uncategorized
REVELATIONS in Isolation In late March, faced with the new shelter-in-place order and only a faint understanding of the damage COVID-19 was to bring, I turned to my mother’s bookcase for a chance to escape. Luckily, I live with a parent who is a writer, poet, and...
by Madison Felman-Panagotacos | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Sacrificial Motherhood and Bodily Autonomy Deolinda Correa trudged across the arid Cuyo Valley in search of her husband, her infant son in tow. While her initial goal was the pursuit of her husband, who had been forcibly conscripted by a regional caudillo — a...
by Ksenia Firsova | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Science Fiction as an Abolitionist Tool While accepting the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014, Ursula K. Le Guin called for science-fiction writers to use their power of imagination to envision a world no...
by Daniel Dominguez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Why A Tribe Called Quest’s “Excursions” Is the Only Hip-Hop Song You Need On June 19, 2020, producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammed teamed up with the legendary jazz musician Roy Ayers to release Roy Ayers JID002, the second installment of their provocatively...
by Charlotte Taylor | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Young, Black, and Magical: The Renaissance of YA Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction In the late 2010s, an explosion of young adult (YA) novels by Black women flooded through a previously White-dominated sphere, topping publisher lists week after week. Novels like...
by Mary Huber | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
To Feel Them Full: Reading Empathy in Keats When you read a lot of poetry, people tend to assume that you have grasped something ineffable. They might remark that you are a sensitive and empathetic person because you have spent so much of your life in the minds of...
