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The Malaya Lolas

By Nicola Sebastian, Photography by Hannah Reyes Morales

Winter 2021

In the wake of postwar trauma, and absent any formal restitution, a group of Filipina women have forged their own path toward healing.

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Bathers with a Turtle

By Ama Codjoe

Summer 2021

Three nudes crudely drawn. One crouching, 

back turned, right hand feeding the turtle 

of the painting’s title; another sitting, as if in a chair,

head bowed, eyes downcast; and a central 

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Wearing a Path

By Layla Benitez-James

Spring 2021

We found ourselves without our grandfather. We found ourselves faced 
with stacks of naked women and reels of naked women. We found ourselves 

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<I>Having and Being Had</I>. By Eula Biss. Riverhead, 2020. 336pp. HB, $26.

Self-Portrait of an Artist

By Michelle Orange

Spring 2021

  If the case of John Berger’s debut novel, A Painter of Our Time, still enrages sixty-three years after its release in 1958, a writer’s wrath especially might be attended by the smallest, wistful pang. An idea-driven meditation on the rol [...]

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Frantumaglia

By Pamela Erens, Illustrations by Najeebah Al-Ghadban

December 3, 2020

Elena Ferrante’s Blurred Lines

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<i>Luster</i>. By Raven Leilani. FSG, 2020. 240p. HB, $26

Sex in the City

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

Summer 2020

We are in the midst of a publishing renaissance of novels about blackness; of literary novels with black protagonists; of novels about race and of novels published by black authors. This wave of publications follows a similar black-literature boom in [...]

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