2+ hour, 27+ min ago  (209+ words) These were the years just before the Wars of Religion, and Felix witnessed a truly staggering number of executions, roughly half of them religious in nature, the persecution of Protestants and heretics. Body parts were cut off before or after…...

2+ hour, 42+ min ago  (64+ words) Jordan Bolden Majewski is a Black queer poet and essayist living in the Bay Area. Her work explores the embodied experience of Black motherhood in its full spectrum" the many dangers, surprises, and joys. She received an MFA in Poetry…...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago  (403+ words) Father's Day, in many ways, has functioned as the most confusing day of the year for me because I both felt love from a man who fathered me and rejection from a man who was my father. The complexity of…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1263+ words) Anna Hogeland is the author of novels The Long Answer (Riverhead Books) and Wild Aster (forthcoming from Bloomsbury). She's a psychotherapist in private practice, with an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work and an MFA from UC Irvine....

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (884+ words) We humans seem hardwired to love dogs. I've seen even the most adamantly non-dog-identifying person soften at the sight of a dog's tilted head, wagging tail, and the feel of that velvety nose nudging the palms of their hands. Though…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (482+ words) Roxane Gay's writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, Mc Sweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (1020+ words) In his latest, however, Stuart pivots to the Isle of Harris, where his characters are held in close proximity'less against a backdrop than confined within a community where everyone knows one another, even the things they believe they've hidden." I…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (425+ words) This April we, again, shared a publication season. My collection of stories, My Dear You, came out on April 7, and Emma's excellent Fat Swim released on April 28. I loved this opportunity to talk stories with Emma. We did our "talking…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (92+ words) Sean Ironman holds an MFA from the University of Central Florida and a Ph D from the University of Missouri-Columbia, both with an emphasis in creative nonfiction. His work has appeared in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, New South, The Writer's…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (885+ words) " It is difficult and overwhelming to think about what's happening to the whole world at scale and the forces that are at play. But telling the story of one person and the points at which they are interacting with these…...