Nonfiction
Book Review: Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue 5, Olivia Kidula & Somto Ihezue, eds.
Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue 5 might have slipped under your radar—reviewer Arley Sorg says you should check it out!
Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue 5 might have slipped under your radar—reviewer Arley Sorg says you should check it out!
What is also true is that people who carry trauma themselves and haven’t addressed it might inadvertently pass it on to their children. I have personal experience with how trauma can shape a parent-child relationship and how it can propagate. I feel that intergenerational trauma is the ogre in real life. It consumes children and when they grow up it consumes their children as well.
Writers decant ourselves into books. They are our immortality, our legacy. We hope they will outlast us and spin a connection to people we will never know, as books have connected us to people of the past. Nowadays, we are pretty accustomed to the idea of all the people perishing. But what if all the books went, too?
Looking for a book about best friends and Old Hollywood? Then don’t miss Silver and Smoke by Van Hoang!
Be sure to check out the editorial for a rundown of this month’s great stories.
This is one of my “creature stories,” so the gastor came first. I just kept wondering what an animal would look like if it had evolved to live in space. I honestly just had fun coming up with new physiological adaptations, and I even consulted my sister, who studies atmospheric science, for some help.
This month Chris Kluwe presents you a book about love, loss, freaky fantasy, found family, and a little girl named Artemis Darth Vader. That’s right: we’re reading TJ Klune’s The Bones Beneath My Skin, and it is one rollercoaster of a ride.
There are many kinds of witches, some old, some young, some beautiful, others “grotesque” but what all of them share is that they don’t give a single fuck about your opinion and don’t waste time wondering if they should. And isn’t that magnetic? A person who is so self-possessed that it becomes a kind of magic?
Melissa A Watkins thinks you need a new found-family heist novel. She recommends: Hammajang Luck by Makano Yamamoto.
I think we—humans collectively, I mean—have just about understood that we have a responsibility towards the Earth. I also think there’s a subset of people who believe the problem could be solved if we just shifted our exploitation of our environment outwards—to the moon, to Mars, to the asteroid belt. They’re wrong.