Iron Chef
A jilted lover expresses her lust, hatred, and remorse through exquisite courses of caviar, duck, and tongue.Jung Ji-won has lost her long-term boyfriend and cooking school partner, and it takes hardly...
View ArticleNormal People Don’t Live Like This
“She wonders if sex is like math, like if you make a man want to eat your hair or go too far, does it follow that you balance the equation by letting him.”“I want to go to the concert.” Rainey.“Jesus...
View ArticleStraight Outta Nebraska
In Jami Attenberg’s new novel, a woman flees her comfortable life and finds a mixed bag of possibilities in Sin City.As a reader, it can be difficult to follow a character who knows not who they are...
View ArticleThe Dollhouse Within
What does it mean to be “in the house,” to be held in place in an age of motion, of fleeting relationships, realities, and contexts?Disruption is often the element that keeps us from finishing a...
View ArticleBrace Yourself
Jennifer Richter’s poems invite us to understand that each of us is a threshold—something pain passes through.In February of this year, I took a trip with some friends to Colorado. There, I had the...
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