An Excerpt From Jaime Parker Stickle’s “Take Hart”

You may know Jaime Parker Stickle from her coverage of crime from both the fictional and nonfictional sides of things. She’s the author of two novels, including 2025’s Vicious Cycle, ab…

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Sunday Stories: “We Ate Standing Up”

We Ate Standing Upby Angela Edward I landed at JFK at night, around 10:30 p.m., already unsure. Baggage claim moved slowly. I stood watching the carousel loop again and again, the same suitcases ci…

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A Technologist’s Nightmare: On Paul Tremblay’s “Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep”

From reading the first fifty or so pages, a reader might be left with two key impressions of Paul Tremblay’s novel Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep. The first is that it represents somethi…

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Sunday Stories: “Grace’s Tree”

Grace’s Treeby Selen Ozturk Paul asked me to kill a tree. I needed a permit under the Marin County Municipal Ordinance Code §223.24. I shat and ate permits at this point.  Bay tree roots sprea…

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Who Gets to Tell Their Story? An Interview About Minor Figures in Famous People’s Lives With Julie Buntin

There are infinite ways for our heroes to disappoint us. In Julie Buntin’s latest novel Famous Men, she explores an issue that too many women face: What happens when the men they look up to take ad…

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Sunday Stories: “Mouse”

Mouseby Jesse Salvo Sofia says that I am not in love with her and to please stop showing up at her house. I should clarify that it is not her house and anyway I was invited and we are all I think a…

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Devin Kelly’s “Pilgrims” and the Joy of Annotation

I have always highlighted and underlined sentences I like in books. Another writer once told me they loved reading after me because when they turned the page and saw something highlighted, it excit…

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We’d Like to Recommend Some July 2026 Books

What does your July reading look like? If you’re in need of recommendations, we have a couple to share with you, encompassing writers from all over the world and books in a wide variety of st…

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Julien Green’s “South”: A Look Back

Cultural historians cite Lamont Johnson’s 1972 drama, That Certain Summer, as television’s first foray into gay-themed storytelling. With its high-caliber cast—Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, Hop…

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Watching the Stars, by Hard Ways: An Interview With DW Ardern

There’s a kind of transcendental experience to be had while watching the skies; there’s also a lot of isolation that comes along with it. In his new book Master of Starlight, DW Ardern …

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Would You Like Some Tarot Cards With Your Graphic Novels?

We’ve covered the sixth and final collection of LySandra Vuong’s Covenant in these (virtual) pages before. Publisher Oni Press recently announced that the crowdfunding/pre-order campaig…

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w i g l e a f :  (very) short fiction

An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.

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Devin Kelly’s “Pilgrims” and the Joy of Annotation

I have always highlighted and underlined sentences I like in books. Another writer once told me they loved reading after me because when they turned the page and saw something highlighted, it excit…

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Sunday Stories: “What a Ghost Is”

What a Ghost Isby Andrew Graham Martin We lowered our chicken tenders as one. A glob of barbecue sauce dripped off the end of mine and fell with a splat onto my crotch. “A man?” Leigh asked her mom…

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Memory, Art, and Evocation: On Lucy Sante’s “My Heart & I Agree”

There are five poems at the beginning of Lucy Sante’s third collection of short pieces. I knew she started out as a poet but had never read one. I saw references to chapbooks online that were long …

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Brad Neely on “Creased Comics” and the World of Absurdism

Brad Neely’s body of work encompasses everything from absurdist comic books to a revisionist take on a certain early president; he’s also written about the life of Ulysses S. Grant. His…

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Afternoon Bites: Revisiting Barbara Pym, Susanna Felts’s Novel, Scott Adlerberg on Norman Mailer, and More

In our afternoon reading: thoughts on novels by Barbara Pym and Susannah Felts, revisiting Norman Mailer, and more.

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LySandra Vuong on Bookmarking a New Volume of “Covenant”

In recent years, LySandra Vuong’s fantasy series Covenant has found a dedicated audience with its take on fantasy adventures, musings on religion, and romance. A crowdfunding/preorder campaig…

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Saving the One You Couldn’t Save: On “Surviving Derrida: A Politics of Friendship with Avital Ronell in Six Parts”

In recollections of her friendship with Kathy Acker, Avital Ronell writes, “Derrida locates in surviving the origin and essence of friendship. Not empirically or chronologically clocked but fundame…

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Announcing the Cover of Matthew Wong Foreman’s “Sunset at Lion Rock”

We’re pleased to debut the cover art for Matthew Wong Foreman’s forthcoming novel Sunset at Lion Rock, set to be published by 7.13 Books on September 15, 2026. The novel, set in Hong Ko…

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Sunday Stories: “After You”

After Youby Alex Treuber I was nineteen years old when I started following people. The first was a young man holding a bouquet of flowers with tears running down his cheeks. I followed him down to …

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Everyday Nightmares: Charlene Elsby on “Poor Damned Souls”

So I sat down with Charlene Elsby’s Poor Damned Souls one evening and found myself reading a book about a relationship about to collapse. That quickly turned into something much bleaker, whic…

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Sunday Stories: “Cat Rituals”

Cat Ritualsby Alex Behr Please empty the litter box. He pees a lot. Play the game called “Find the prize” every day with the scooper thing. There are lots of prizes!

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We’d Like to Recommend Some June 2026 Books

Hello and welcome to the month of June. We hope that you started out the month with the traditional utterance of “rabbit rabbit.” We are currently immersing ourselves in Ibrahim Alfa Jn…

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Nostalgia, A Cautionary Tale

Nostalgia, A Cautionary Taleby Emma Davey I have an excellent memory. If I close my eyes, I can drop myself into a favorite kindergarten field trip or the way I would always eat Grandma’s-bra…

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Cuisine With a Dash of History: A Review of “The Swedish Cookbook”

The Swedish Cookbook by Niklas Ekstedt is a beautifully crafted celebration of Nordic simplicity, balance and flavor — a book that feels both timeless and refreshingly modern. Ekstedt brings his si…

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Sunday Stories: “Righteous Kiss”

Righteous Kissby Joe Aguilar I’m standing in a musty side room beside the cafeteria at my five-year high school reunion, looking at our friend the goldfish, when I start to wonder about kissing.&nb…

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“A Literary Event”: A Review of Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story”

For more than three decades, the literary world has waited for a definitive, fresh examination of one of the 20th century’s most vital voices. In Baldwin: A Love Story, Nicholas Boggs delivers not …

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