When I first opened Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung, I sat alone in my room, one among the laststragglers of those yet to vacate campus…
Sunday Staff Picks: January 29th
Is zero a number? 0 is the exception to many numerological rules. A number cannot be dived by 0, and any product of 0 is…
Sunday Staff Picks: December 18th
“I’m not sick.” These words, said by Susan Stryker in response to a transphobic conference-goer in 1995, are what inaugurated both the field of trans…
Sunday Staff Picks: December 4th
Musical Tables, the newest release from former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins, is a refreshing embrace of minimalistic, short form poetry: Paired with themes…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 27th
George Saunders’ newest collection of short stories, Liberation Day, is an intriguing blend of realism and dystopian, but Saunders shines brightest in the stories that…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 20th
Much like this book’s eponymous animal, Gabrielle Bates’ debut poetry collection Judas Goat takes us toward a place where our humanity meets the hard edge…
Sunday Staff Pick: November 13
Ada Limón’s The Hurting Kind is a spellbinding love letter to nature. The collection, separated chronologically into four seasons, opens in the spring with a…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 6th
Alison Mills Newman’s Francisco, an autobiographical novel chronicling the young actress’ days in Hollywood and the 1970’s Black Arts movement, was first published in 1974.…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 30th
The summer before senior year at Berkeley, Hua Hsu’s friend Ken is killed in a carjacking. The tragedy happens hours after Ken’s housewarming party, a…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 23
“called forward.” These words mark Ocean Vuong’s opening acknowledgements of his poetrycollection Time is a Mother, dedicated to Vuong’s partner, Peter, and Vuong’s late mother,…