Marwa Helal. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan. Marwa Helal is the author of Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019), Ante body (Nightboat Books, forthcoming 2022), and winner of…
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Tope Folarin, Fiction
Tope Folarin. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan. Tope Folarin is a Nigerian American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in…
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There’s No Such Thing as Original Stories: You’re Not Original and Why That’s Good
Have you ever heard that there are no original stories? As a writer, did this turn your stomach or make you angry? Although the idea…
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Poets on Couches: Reading Max Jacob
In this series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times—broadcasting straight from their couches to yours. These…
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Quarantine Reads: ‘The Waves’
In our new series Quarantine Reads, writers present the books they’re finally making time for and consider what it’s like to read them in these…
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Staff Picks: From Aphorisms to Zorn
While there are many things to say about philosophical weightiness of the aphorism, or about its particular wit, it is my personal feeling that…
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