“If countries were people, we wouldn’t invite them to our parties because they are too monstrous,” Robin Hemley tells Julia Lieblich.
Author: Another Chicago Magazine
everything we could stand to lose to the devil
(poetry)
I am not unhappy in the house all day.
(nonfiction)
We like our politicians to be bland technocrats, for obvious historical reasons, but that doesn’t mean they cannot occasionally inspire.
(nonfiction)
We are talking about our lack of consistent showering, we are talking about our addictions and telling people our feelings.
(nonfiction)
“For a book that is in many ways a ghost story,” reviewer Jesi Buell writes, “Brandeis removes the magical, fabled elements and makes the reader focus on the real-life consequences of violence committed against girls’ bodies.”
(review)
How does one “shelter in place” when one has limited shelter?
(nonfiction)
“Diehl and Goodrich bypass the tedium of lesson preparations to make their school settings deliciously weird,” Jason Teal writes.
(review)
In 2010 life changed in Bear’s Corner. Outsiders know the place as Komi. That was the year the bears came to eat us.
(fiction)
