Date: March 26, 2024
I am a novelist and journalist who has been writing about war and refugees for nearly two decades. In 2018, I went to the Greek island of Samos, which held […]
Date: March 20, 2024
Poets Melissa Studdard and Kelli Russell Agodon share the poems “Green Flame” from Refugee (Red Hen Press, May 2022) and “Self Help Manual” from Crazy Love (Wings Press, 2009) by […]
Date: March 20, 2024
Between an Oscar-winning movie adaptation of one of his books and a new novel with rave reviews, Percival Everett’s gone from cult favorite to superstar Percival Everett is poised for […]
Date: March 19, 2024
Eunice Hong graduated from Columbia Law School, creates jewelry, and is a weaver. She also is the winner of the Red Hen Press Fiction Award for her debut book Memento Mori, which is a […]
Date: March 19, 2024
Secret Harvests limns the compounded tragedy of the Japanese internment for one family, when a cognitively disabled member, herself disabled via the racism of inadequate medical care–was separated and “lost” […]
Date: March 19, 2024
Today’s book is: Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm (Red Hen Press, 2023), by David Mas Masumoto. In his new memoir, Mas discovers his […]
Date: March 19, 2024
Growing up, Mas Masumoto was vaguely aware that he had an aunt who’d been separated from the family in the 1940s. Her name was Shizuko Sugimoto, and she had an […]
Date: March 19, 2024
In a narrow, windowless room at the University of Southern California, a group of graduate students is workshopping a short story…. While they speak, their professor, the novelist Percival Everett, […]
Date: March 12, 2024
Today’s poem celebrates the glow and growth of daughters, their energy and curiosity, their intuition and vulnerability. Click here to listen.
Date: March 12, 2024
“Every sentence Juliana Lamy writes is like a match being struck. Not many authors debut with her clarity of vision, inventiveness, and verbal agility, and I would wager almost anything […]
Date: April 22, 2024
A coming-of-age tale combined with a pastoral horror story. Annika Rose Rogers graduates from high school with no real prospects for the future other than working alongside her father on […]
Date: April 10, 2024
Cursebreakers is a powerful debut novel by fantasy writer Madeleine Nakamura. Set in a magic-filled world adjacent to our own, we follow professor of magic Adrien Desfourneaux as he works to uncover […]
Date: March 28, 2024
The nine linked stories in Rajbanshi’s sterling debut collection blend snapshots of immigrants from Africa, Asia, and South America in New York and California, as well as flashing back to […]
Date: March 28, 2024
I didn’t really get on to Dead Can Dance until “Into the Labyrinth,” their most popular LP that made the audiophile rounds here in the States. 4AD, their label, wasn’t […]
Date: March 12, 2024
Brightly evocative, clever, and sincere, Tuazon’s third work of fiction continues to chart a promising path forward. Click here to read more.
Date: March 6, 2024
Benedict’s true-to-life novel resonates, particularly in the characters’ moments of fortitude in the face of brutal experiences of heartbreak and loss.
Date: February 29, 2024
MacLeish Sq. is a haunting and lyrical novel that blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion, present and past; Dennis Must explores the power of memory, guilt, and redemption in […]
Date: February 28, 2024
Following 2019’s multi-award finalist Bright Stain, poet/translator Bell returns with a second collection focusing largely on women and the issues they face (many poems deal with abortion and rape), while […]
Date: February 28, 2024
Once upon a time many years ago I taught in Germany, not far from the Harz Mountains, haunt of the Brothers Grimm and Heinrich Heine. To my surprise my students […]
Date: February 21, 2024
Today’s read… Tree Spirits by Louise Wannier Today’s read heads into the direction of creativity and imagination. It was presented to me as an unique, nonfiction read…and I’m expecting it […]
