Lan Samantha Chang Channels Dostoyevsky in Her Latest Novel
Lan Samantha Chang discusses her fourth novel, an homage to The Brothers Karamazov, as well as balancing writing with teaching and motherhood.
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Dreaming in the Dark
De Robertis envisioned The President and the Frog as “a love letter to anyone who’s ever felt despair,” she says, “or anyone who looks at climate change, or the spike in open racism, or just the difficulty of navigating daily life in our world.”
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Fact or Fiction: On Vendela Vida’s ‘We Run the Tides’
A novel, itself a fabrication, can’t exist without poignant truths that spring to the surface through plot and characterization and detail.
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Gina Apostol Gets Meta
I’d like to go back to Raymundo Mata and look at it again, because of the fake news shit that’s going on right now—to reflect on what this metatextuality means.
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Xiaolu Guo’s Search for a Perfect Home
The idea of authentic home and the idea of authentic love: whether you’re married or not, I really think it’s what we miss in modern life.
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Dissidents, Revolutionaries, and Protestors: On Imbolo Mbue
We are seeing the perils of globalization right now. People pay prices for other people’s actions in other parts of the world.
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