The Millions - Books, Arts, and Culture

It is a condemnation of the damned human race that each passing decade has leached David R. Bunch's stories of their bitter surrealism to the extent that now they may be read as reports on the real.

Matthew Cheney

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‘Castle on the River Vistula’: Featured Fiction by Michelle Tea

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It took Sophie a few minutes to adjust to the brightness of daytime on earth. Her eyes ached; she could feel them pulse as they struggled to shift from the ocean’s ambient darkness to this violent glare.

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Essays

Nepantla and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Queer of Color Legacy

Christopher Soto

In more recent years, I have began to question this essay by Anzaldúa, both of our usages of the word “Nepantla,” and also her ideas around mestizaje.

Christopher Soto

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Revisiting Malcolm Lowry’s ‘Under the Volcano’ on the Day of the Dead

Seth L. Riley

The ultimate tragedy of Under the Volcano is that of humanity’s wasted potential. Can, Lowry pondered, the psyche repair itself?

Seth L. Riley

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Essays

What to Do After Decades of Teaching ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Wrong?

Andrew Simmons | 2

We’re tasked with teaching a book that doesn’t live up to its longstanding responsibility of delivering a recokining with American racism.

Andrew Simmons | 2

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Why “Self-Promotion” Is Bullshit

Jamie Chesbro | 2

Promote your book. Share what you’re comfortable sharing with potential readers, but please, let’s abolish that terribly ill-fitting word: self-promotion.

Jamie Chesbro | 2

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