Date: February 24, 2021
In a column for The Cut titled “How Am I?” Amil Niazi paints a grim picture of pandemic working motherhood. In the middle of her realistic itinerary piece about care of two young children while […]
Date: February 24, 2021
The woman on the cover of Lara Ehrlich’s debut short story collection appears to be almost airlifted from the 1950s—she could be an actor from The Donna Reed Show or perhaps a […]
Date: February 24, 2021
What’s the next step after you finally “make it”? While it’s easy to scoff at the problems of people who are financially set, it’s not uncommon to lose a sense […]
Date: February 22, 2021
Many of Kinsolving’s poems relate to science. Her first book focused on horticulture and floral metaphor. The poems in another book examined aphasia and dementia’s linguistic enigma. Her most recent […]
Date: February 19, 2021
This year welcomes a slate of Black authors who will publish young adult fiction ranging in subject matter, but sharing one common goal: to expand what it means to see […]
Date: February 11, 2021
Self-care has never been more important than it is right now, and that’s especially true for Black women, who have had to juggle work, family, personal lives, and more amid ongoing […]
Date: February 8, 2021
Tobi Harper is Deputy Director of Red Hen Press, Founder and Editor of Quill (a queer publishing series), Publisher of The Los Angeles Review, and Instructor for the UCLA Extension […]
Date: February 3, 2021
Before the pandemic hit, playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach was working on a play about American labor movements between 1890 and 1920 — an era that many associate with seamstresses jumping out […]
Date: January 25, 2021
My mom says every mother needs a daughter. It’s not that she doesn’t love and appreciate her two sons. My middle brother knows best how to comfort her in times […]
Date: January 20, 2021
Each year, the editors of The Believer present awards to the works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry they find to be the best written and most underappreciated. For the first time ever, […]
Date: April 23, 2024
You Were Watching from the Sand (Pasadena CA: Red Hen, 2023, paper US$16.95), the debut short story collection by Haitian-born, South Florida-raised Harvard graduate Juliana Lamy, vividly portrays adolescent life […]
Date: April 23, 2024
I was driven, & I was moved. Your book travels through identities at night, like deer eyes I saw glowing over a road in upstate Wisconsin, arresting. Your words keep […]
Date: April 23, 2024
Helen Benedict’s The Good Deed is an ambitious, gorgeously written novel about the lives of refugees and the failure of systems to care for these vulnerable survivors of wars and […]
Date: April 23, 2024
Southern California-based Filipino American writer Tuazon (The Cussing Cat Clock) brings to readers a collection of 13 short stories, 11 of which have been previously published in slightly different forms. […]
Date: April 22, 2024
If you had to organize a bunch of poetry books into bins, like in an old-fashioned vinyl record store…and you were getting creative with your genres/tabs/etc., this book Sex Augury […]
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.
