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Ananda Lima on Books she is looking forward to in 2024

Happy New Year!  This year is particularly exciting and also a little nerve-wracking for me: my fiction debut (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, Tor 2024), my weird baby I have worked on for so long, will be out in the world. It is a strange thing how time moves. I have been saying […]

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Happy New Year!  This year is particularly exciting and also a little nerve-wracking for me: my fiction debut (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, Tor 2024), my weird baby I have worked on for so long, will be out in the world. It is a strange thing how time moves. I have been saying

A column of smoke resulting from Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip

On Arab American Women’s Anti-War Poetry

I. Witnessing “This is weightThis is I did not know they made smoke like oceanThis is aluminum dusk and sulfur cloudsThis is sabah-al-kherMorning of luckMorning of cinderThis is steam and ruin and flashlit bodiesThis is counting your lossThis is losing count.” These are the first few lines of Hala Alyan’s poem “Diaspora” written in response

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I. Witnessing “This is weightThis is I did not know they made smoke like oceanThis is aluminum dusk and sulfur cloudsThis is sabah-al-kherMorning of luckMorning of cinderThis is steam and ruin and flashlit bodiesThis is counting your lossThis is losing count.” These are the first few lines of Hala Alyan’s poem “Diaspora” written in response

The cover of Boris Dralyuk's "My Hollywood and Other Poems" set over a blue-green background.

In with the Old: Boris Dralyuk’s My Hollywood and Other Poems

As in the Hollywood of the last century, Boris Dralyuk’s debut collection features bankrupt dive bars, washed-up starlets (“Nothing was ever / quite the same. // Every one came / to be another”), the odd fruit stall, balding palm trees, and Igor Stravinsky. Dralyuk is the former editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books,

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As in the Hollywood of the last century, Boris Dralyuk’s debut collection features bankrupt dive bars, washed-up starlets (“Nothing was ever / quite the same. // Every one came / to be another”), the odd fruit stall, balding palm trees, and Igor Stravinsky. Dralyuk is the former editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books,

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Serena Alagappan’s Sensitivity to (Cultural) Temperature

For Serena Alagappan, the recently elapsed Diwali and rapidly approaching Hanukkah have encapsulated years upon years of “tender” memories. From decorating clay pots, or diyas, for Deepavali to lighting the menorah for Hanukkah, “gather[ing] around flame” with loved ones has been a tradition baked into her brain since childhood – a childhood also defined mostly

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For Serena Alagappan, the recently elapsed Diwali and rapidly approaching Hanukkah have encapsulated years upon years of “tender” memories. From decorating clay pots, or diyas, for Deepavali to lighting the menorah for Hanukkah, “gather[ing] around flame” with loved ones has been a tradition baked into her brain since childhood – a childhood also defined mostly

A photo of the author and her friends from the boarding school in Malta in 1986.

Ubiquitous Violence

I remember when Top Gun: Maverick came out. My friends kept insisting that Maverick is “even better” than the one they loved so much, the one that came out when I was 18. Have you seen it? What did you think of it? What about the first one – what did you love best about

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I remember when Top Gun: Maverick came out. My friends kept insisting that Maverick is “even better” than the one they loved so much, the one that came out when I was 18. Have you seen it? What did you think of it? What about the first one – what did you love best about

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