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Nonfiction, Essay Hawa Allen Nonfiction, Essay Hawa Allen

From the Archives: Love, the Verb

Everyone thinks they know what love is, but most have no clue. Reading hooks' works on love, you’ll likely discover, for the most part, that nobody loves you. Not your family, not your friends, not your “lover.” You also might discover that you don’t love anyone either.

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Essay Yoojin Na Essay Yoojin Na

If I Had Your Face

We could shave our heads, burn our bras, protest the patriarchy, and criticize the male gaze, but Cha suggests a simpler solution: true friendship among women.

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Criticism, Nonfiction Brady Huggett Criticism, Nonfiction Brady Huggett

Self-Discovery Through Honor Moore’s “Our Revolution”

My own mother died years ago, and, similar to Honor Moore’s experience, she left me her journals, letters, essays, and notebooks filled with quotations and existential pondering. Like Moore, it took me years to fully unpack the boxes, a decade slipping away before I gathered the courage to read it all front to back and try to make sense of my mother’s life.

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Essay, Criticism, Nonfiction Hawa Allen Essay, Criticism, Nonfiction Hawa Allen

Love, the Verb

Everyone thinks they know what love is, but most have no clue. Reading hooks' works on love, you’ll likely discover, for the most part, that nobody loves you. Not your family, not your friends, not your “lover.” You also might discover that you don’t love anyone either.

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Poetry Cat Fitzpatrick Poetry Cat Fitzpatrick

Excerpt from “The Call-Out”

She grins to herself, then, since they friended
each other at some point during that night,
she opens messenger and starts to write
a message: “Hi. It’s been a while
but I’d still like to be your friend.”

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