My Undiagnosed Chronic Illness Taught Me to Love Sci-Fi
The genre taps into our culture’s deepest anxieties about the trustworthiness of women
The genre taps into our culture’s deepest anxieties about the trustworthiness of women
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Anna Nygren’s “blush / river / fox” is a foray into the exuberant capacities of multilingual writing
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When these characters escape into the wilderness, it redefines their relationship to the land and to themselves
Three anagram poems by Jia-Rui Cook
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Three anagram poems by Jia-Rui Cook
“Fictions” by Anna Hogeland, recommended by Preety Sidhu for Electric Literature
“Spinal Tap,” flash fiction by Angela Liu