The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research
Date: June 3, 2020
Kristen Millares Young on Learning from Makah Tradition I am zipped into a tent on my friend’s beachfront lawn. Caring for her mom and kids, she has a full house, […]
News & Reviews
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Tracing the Fractures: A Conversation with Kristen Millares Young
Date: June 2, 2020
I don’t remember when or how Kristen Millares Young and I became friends, but I know it happened in Coast Salish territory, specifically Seattle, where she lives and I left. Subduction, her debut novel […]
April 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us
Date: June 2, 2020
Ms. Magazine Ms. Feminist Know-It-All features Subduction! In this utterly unique and important first novel, Young examines themes of love, intrusion, loss, community and trust against a backdrop of a […]
On Diaspora, Encounter, and Emotional Restitution
Date: June 2, 2020
There are a lot of moving, shifting pieces that comprise Kristen Millares Young’s stunning debut novel, Subduction; its characters are equal parts voyeurs and participants in their own unraveling, and the Pacific […]
Literary Events Go Virtual in the Time of COVID-19
Date: June 2, 2020
Kristen Millares Young was preparing for a number of events this spring to support her novel Subduction. Now, she’s in a very different position — one of many writers lacking one […]
CNN: Tell us what you’re reading right now
Date: June 2, 2020
Reading literature can give us a place to turn right now — and not just because it’s comforting. It’s because it helps us grapple with enormous ruptures in time. There’s […]
‘A Community Of Desperation’ Finding Sympathy And Solidarity In Dorothea Lange
Date: June 2, 2020
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Photographer Dorothea Lange had an eye for capturing what was going on around her – the Great Depression, Japanese American internment camps during World War II. […]
The Harvard Review Online features “Found Poem: Pocket Geology”
Date: June 2, 2020
Atop the Earth’s mantle, rock moving: Continents are milk skin floating on cocoa. A restless interior sweeps them along. In trenches minerals decay— at the core landmasses digest themselves. The crust does not movein one […]
The Yale Review features “Song with Day Glo & Jello”
Date: June 2, 2020
Hulky & afloat on seas of parkingthe old Plaza dated from the fifties— sold Day Glo Ice & jelly […]
Versifying | Collection Development: Poetry
Date: June 2, 2020
Library Journal features Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone and Felicia Zamora’s Body of Render.
Reviews:
Don’t let your child get the “summer slide”: TREE SPIRITS by Louise Wannier Reviewed in She Scribes
Date: August 7, 2025
This is not a reading book, however, it does encourage children to use their imaginations and “think outside the box.” That skill will help them later in life with critical […]
CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO by Tom Lutz Featured in Publishers Weekly
Date: August 5, 2025
Troubled lives intersect in the Indian Ocean with explosive results in Lutz’s tantalizing follow-up to Born Slippy. Frank Baltimore worked in construction until one of his employees started laundering money and […]
Kirkus Reviews THE RE IN REFUGE by Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Date: August 4, 2025
A poignant and profoundly relevant examination of society’s safe places. In this essay collection, Kalfopoulou explores the notion of refuge in all its varied facets. “Embedded in the word refugee […]
CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO by Tom Lutz Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews
Date: July 24, 2025
Four stories merge into one in this tale of politics and greed set in the Indian Ocean. No one can trust anyone in this incendiary tale of murder, espionage, and […]
This Isle Is Full of Noises: World Literature Today On Andrew Lam’s STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA
Date: June 30, 2025
Twelve years ago, Andrew Lam, a writer and journalist who left Vietnam as “a plane person” at the end of the Vietnam War at the age of eleven, published Birds of Paradise […]
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Reviews STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA by Andrew Lam
Date: June 18, 2025
In Stories from the Edges of the Sea, Andrew Lam writes not from the center of trauma but from its quieter afterlives. These are not conventional Vietnamese refugee stories. They emerge […]
Necessary Fiction Remarks on the Interplay Between “the Weird and the Mundane” in Their Glowing Review of Molly Olguín’s Debut Collection THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD
Date: June 17, 2025
The stories in The Sea Gives Up the Dead, Molly Olguín’s debut collection, are remarkable for the ways in which they skate between the weird and the mundane, the ordinary and […]
Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY Featured in Seven Days’ Writeup On Vermont Books
Date: June 12, 2025
In her second poetry collection, Didi Jackson shifts among lyrical strategies, sometimes earthy and elsewhere mystical. An assistant professor at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University, she spends part of the year in […]
Kirkus Reviews and Lara Ehrlich’s BIND ME TIGHTER STILL
Date: May 27, 2025
The relationship between Ceto—a siren who left her sisters and the ocean behind—and her 15-year-old daughter, Naia, is tested when Sirenland, their seaside burlesque attraction, is threatened by the untimely […]
Chapter House Journal Reviews Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen
Date: May 22, 2025
In James, Percival Everett’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the character James writes, “With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself to here.” By doing […]