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Inviting History to Dinner with Victor Piñeiro

Time travel in fiction often requires an elaborate device, like a machine, or a tear in the fabric of reality. In Victor Piñeiro’s middle grade novel Time Villains, it begins with a dinner invitati...

Weathering the Storm with Rebecca Mix

It was a cold afternoon in January when I spoke with Rebecca Mix. Snow had been threatening all morning, the kind of winter light that makes it hard to tell what time it is. Our conversation focuse...

A Letter from the Editor

I’ve been reading for the weather. Not metaphorically; literally reading, line after line, through novels, short stories, poems, and plays, in search of language that captures what’s happening outs...

Reading the Sky with Britney Truempy

Weather forecasts are usually delivered as data, but under the surface is something more subjective. Two meteorologists can study the same model and arrive at different conclusions, and two writers...

Keeping Time with Ann Napolitano

We talk about time as if it’s fixed, but most of us know it’s anything but. An hour can stretch or disappear depending on what life asks of us, and very few novelists make that instability feel as ...

The Evolution of the Literary Device

We all know the usual suspects: irony, metaphor, foreshadowing, symbolism. They’re the terms we underlined in English class, the ones we later started spotting in our reading and implementi...