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Kate Grenville suggests we read Elizabeth Macarthur’s letters as ‘a wonderful piece of fiction, sustained over sixty years’. They were exercises in doubleness, concealment, and delicious irony.
Hey guys!!! Our reading challenge is ALMOST OVER, so dont give up now! For November, we will be exploring the literary lands of Australia, guided by our very own winter_lace, who wrote this months post for us! - Australia is the largest country located with the continent of Oceania and is…
Rachel Crawford (right) of Akimbo Books with a customer at a recent pop-up event at John's Tex Mex. Customers of John’s Tex-Mex in the South Wedge typically get their tacos and burritos with a side of refried beans or mashed potatoes. On a recent Saturday, they got a side of indie lit, too. Nestled in a back corner of the restaurant, past clusters of patrons gorging on guacamole, was a pop-up bookstore fashioned out of a small table displaying a couple dozen books — novels, essays, and poetry, mostly from small presses and international authors. The exhibit was the wo...
Composite illustration by Leea Contractor It’s confirmed: however dire the events that take place in my country, they are less important than what happens in the world of my white American friends. Let me lay out the context. The day before the US election results were announced, a blanket anxiety lay over my social media over a possible Trump win. I was unfazed, and apparently, not the only one: The Guardian published an article on the same day from a familiar name. “The rest of the world,” wrote the ever-unapologetic Mohammad Hanif, “has had it with US presidents. Trump or otherwise...
Content Notice: Graphic description of acts of Gender-Based Violence “You want to understand how power works in any society, watch who is carrying the shame and who is doing the shaming.” — Shailja Patel Growing up, I was taught all kinds of myths about Black women. I was taught, on the playground, in Disney films and from the Generations soapie that women are delicate things, that women are unambitious and are happiest waiting for men. That Black women who worked were lesser women who could not attract a man. I was taught that women were bad, that Eve created sin, that when women mens...