The Time We Have Left with Dara Levan

IN SHAKEN TO THE CORE, Joy is a Miami photographer whose “carefully curated life” is interrupted by loss, and soon after, by circumstances that change the future she thought she had chosen. In conv...

Finding Magic in What Lasts with Tom Lin

IN BABYLON, SOUTH DAKOTA, Saul and Mei Hsiu are Chinese immigrants trying to make a life for their family on a South Dakota homestead they’ve inherited. The seasons change, and the family grows old...

Leaving the Clock Behind with Jamie Brenner

When reading The Weekend Crashers, we find ourselves in autumn, at an inn in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where a knitting retreat and a bachelor party have accidentally been booked for the same weekend...

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...

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...

The Story Behind Author & Co.

Author & Co. began as a collaboration between readers and creators exploring how literature might exist beyond the page. From that question came something entirely new: the first objects design...