Brimmed with Bones
Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a haunted house story dripping in blood and originality…
Memories and Moths
In Night Bus, Zuo Ma puts a surreal twist on autobiographical storytelling. The graphic novel is a series of imaginative short stories that connect to Ma’s real life.…
Fathers That Make You Drink
The father and son relationship is often portrayed as a strong bond formed under the hood of a car or in a sunny fishing boat. For some, this idealized version of the father and son dynamic may stir warm and …
Letters for the Living
The weekend following my thirteenth birthday, I was forced to attend Jane Freeman’s funeral. Jane was a heavy girl; she had been skating on the pond behind the school, the one that kids sometimes used as a rink. It was …
Life Writing in a Time Machine
Zoë Wicomb’s novel “Still Life” is a strange fictional twist on life writing that takes “ghost writing” literally.…