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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green…
Dismantling the Mother Shelf: Expanding Our Thinking About Women’s Stories of Parenthood
When it comes to the Mother Shelf, it’s tempting to shrug our collective shoulders and say, Well, that’s just how book marketing works. But the uncomfortable truth is that publishers,…
Q&A: Stewart Battles Book Bans at PRH
In September 2024, during Banned Books Week, Penguin Random House (PRH) expanded its Intellectual Freedom Taskforce, a group dedicated to protecting the freedom to read, by naming Rosie Stewart senior…
Following the Sounds of Poetry
There are multiple pathways from Anne Carson’s poetry to Ross Gay’s prose. One need only listen, the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson reminds us, and follow…
AI Threatens Literary Translation
The etymology of the word translation—“to carry across”—conjures an image of physical labor. It is deeply relational, requiring at least two bodies, those of an author and of the person…
The Unicorn by Mae Wilson
Andromeda’s BeastiaryA unicorn whose job is to eat the universe. A mysterious corpse that shows up at random events and annoys people; a piece of trash with abandonment issues, trees…
Wild Life by Katie Haegele & Defectivepudding
Katie volunteers at a wildlife rehabilitation clinic, where she helps care for injured, sick, or abandoned animals, including snakes, turtles, squirrels, chipmunks, opossums, waterfowl, songbirds, and raptors. She wrote a…
License Plates: 50 States
a zine by Eve Gordon
Space Face
a zine by Cheyne Ellett